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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Amazon refuses to turn over customers' reading records to North Carolina tax department - Boing Boing

Cory Doctorow at 9:01 AM April 20, 2010

North Carolina's tax department wants to ding NC residents for sales tax on purchases from out-of-state etailers like Amazon.com, so they've asked Amazon to cough up a list of everything its NC customers have bought -- books, sex-toys, steaks, CDs, whatever. Amazon's taken the high-road, and has gone to court to protect its customers' privacy. Good on ya, Amazon!

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