News and Research articles on Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Volume 12, Issue 3

The transformation of surveillance in the digitalisation discourse of the OECD: a brief genealogy

Michaela Padden, Karlstad University
PUBLISHED ON: 8 Aug 2023 DOI: 10.14763/2023.3.1720

Over the past fifty years, surveillance practices once considered untenable due to their incompatibility with democratic rights and values have been rebranded as tolerable, neutral, or even desirable.

KEYWORDS: Profiling, Surveillance, Digitalisation, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Democracy
Digital economy

The clash between internet freedom and the need to tax

Monika Ermert, Heise, Intellectual Property Watch, VDI-Nachrichten

PUBLISHED ON: 24 Jul 2014

Much of our economy is moving online, but who will pay taxes, when virtual is tax exempted or when only some regions earn from the digital businesses lured by nice lax tax regulation or otherwise. Read up on how the struggle for tax and data are intertwined.