The government is looking at the use
of data scraping from social-media platforms in the battle
against tax evasion, Deputy Economy Minister Maurizio Leo said
on Wednesday.
"What needs to be done, and what we are working on with the
Inland Revenue Agency (l'Agenzia delle Entrate), and (public IT
agency) Sogei, is so-called 'data scraping', which means taking
account of the standard-of-living data that professionals and
entrepreneurs publish on social networks (and seeing if it is
compatible with their tax declarations)," Leo said.
"We have already started discussing this the privacy authority,
and they are willing to cooperate, as long as the protection of
personal data is not prejudiced.
"Collaboration with the (privacy) authority is absolutely
fundamental.
"Tax evasion is huge weight (on society), like terrorism, and we
all must cooperate".
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