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You call a tax fraud investigation "needlessly harassing the business of sovereign individuals?" You're right, the U.S. is very business and industry friendly, which explains why the American people have been getting poorer and poorer while corporations and their shareholders get richer and richer.
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Well they certainly do want the revenues from users outside of Ireland
People with guns forcibly going through your things with threat of prison time tends to erase desire for revenue. See international business climate in China.
We worked for a small company, so we knew that they're here for the big company that does credit card transactions, but it was both surprising and ... absolutely uneventful, they didn't even talk to us. (As we were leaving we didn't even run into them - at least I don't recall any interaction.)
Later the sysadmins of the big company had amazing stories about how the tax authorities wanted copies of every hard drive. And when they told them that, sure, sure, but things are on a RAID and without the config and the card it'll be useless. They didn't care of course :)
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As an American surrounded by Superfund sites I would like some of these unnecessary restrictions and harassment by the state. The US is so beholden to private interests we can't even repair the roads or mandate healthcare without making it into a market.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_a_Flag_over_the_Reichs...
I don't see any American flag here.
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The Average American is getting richer and richer, especially compared to European wage stagnation. I don’t think non-Americans understand how rich middle class americans are.
Only 50% of Americans have Passports. 80% in Europe. We understand it, because we travel there on, our paid, vacations. My last time in America I went to San Francisco, lots of money, I have not seen a worst place to live in my life. Americans don't understand the quality of life other places have.
Especially Europe. Europeans don’t even seem to understand how large America is, which is why so few have passports.
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The alternative, giving them a password that gives them read/write access to sensitive systems, would be insane. Subpoena for particular data.
Uber has a history of serving falsified data to the justice, though. Their offices are raided because they can’t be trusted with a subpoena.
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The alternative, giving them a password that gives them read/write access to sensitive systems, would be insane. Subpoena for particular data.
You can give them read access tokens that expire every couple of hours....
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If you do business in France, you are accountable in France. Your problem to provide the asked documents if it's the law to provide them. That you are using computers elsewhere to store stuff should not be any relevant. You shouldn't really be able to have it both ways, should you?
Uber's files and computers located in French territory are of course accountable to French authorities, but that's simply not the case for those located in other jurisdictions… Unless there is some international law or treaty mandating that?
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If you do business in France, you are accountable in France. Your problem to provide the asked documents if it's the law to provide them. That you are using computers elsewhere to store stuff should not be any relevant. You shouldn't really be able to have it both ways, should you?
Uber's files and computers located in French territory are of course accountable to French authorities, but that's simply not the case for those located in other jurisdictions… Unless there is some international law or treaty mandating that?
Preventing access to your accounts during an audit is quite fishy, especially for an onsite audit without warning which, in France, is supposed to happen only if the authorities have doubts that you could make some evidences disappear. During an audit, the CEO is supposed to provide the documents, the inspectors are not supposed to access your files themselves I think.
(So blocking access for security reasons is bullshit, to answer someone else, the right thing to do is to have all the pieces in order for when an audit happens anyway)