Digital tax by traffic raises privacy questions; Apple's content caching would neatly dodge it
ngxson · x · 2026-10-31
A discussion of a proposed traffic-counting digital tax law: the author argues that "no deep packet inspection required" doesn't settle privacy concerns—attribution of CDN traffic to individual content providers inside hosting platforms raises open questions about what records are kept and what reaches tax authorities. The amusing twist: Apple's macOS Content Caching already downloads data once and shares it over LAN, so under this law only the initial download would count at the ISP level.
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