"In the economy digital, all left their mark. Due to the regular and systematic monitoring of their online business, data application users are collected without monetary consideration. Users, recipients of a service become and quasi-employees, volunteers, businesses." -- translation<p>The French Ministry of Finance produced a report [1] determining that Google should be taxed on the value of the exhaust data (clicks, etc.) it discovers by tracking (presumably) the nation's citizens' behavior on the Internet.<p>The report appears to argue that Google's users should be treated as employees for the purpose of taxation.<p>[1] “Mission d’expertise sur la fiscalité de l’économie numérique”
<a href="http://www.redressement-productif.gouv.fr/files/rapport-fiscalite-du-numerique_2013.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.redressement-productif.gouv.fr/files/rapport-fisc...</a><p>[2] Google translation of the abstract <a href="https://gist.github.com/4591051" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/4591051</a>