How to tax companies that use your data

What’s happening? Big tech companies use your data and make money from your data. Some groups want to find ways that makes tech companies pay you for your data use, some groups want to impose a tax on those companies for that data use and dedicate the revenue for greater land use.

Why is this important? An ad hoc group of California scholars are studying the issue. There is a report. People will talk about it. And revenue raising is something states are skilled at.

How will this be important? How states choose to levy a fee (tax) for using your data will become a partisan issue.

@Businessweek