Kieren McCarthy reports:
Online retailers in America will soon be required by law to disclose to state governments what purchases their customers – meaning, you – have made.
That extraordinary situation is the result of a long-running legal case that the US Supreme Court this week refused to hear. This means a decision by the Tenth Circuit [PDF] requiring out-of-state retailers to report to the Colorado state government the details of all purchases – including what that purchase was and who bought it – stands.
So if you bought a dildo in Denver, some bureaucrat is going to be informed about it.
Read more on The Register.
h/t, Joe Cadillic
So it’s legal to smoke marijuana but it’s not okay to buy a dildo? There seems to be some hypocrisy here.
It has nothing to do with legality of a sale/item. It has to do with reporting sales to states so they can collect taxes.