Netflix Europe offices raided in tax fraud probe

Re:Netflix Europe offices raided in tax fraud probe by chollida1 on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @12:55PM (#42053684)

Because the government already has a warrant to obtain this evidence(they can't raid the office otherwise) and you as the company pushing this button are failing to turn over that evidence.

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Re:Netflix Europe offices raided in tax fraud probe by ExoticPearTree on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @02:02PM (#42054263)

It doesn’t work like that.

The warrant is based on probable cause, meaning that law enforcement is very confident in what they will find. So, if they don’t find anything, tough luck. You have absoluteley no obligation to help the prosecutors in any way.

The single notable exception that I am aware is the UK where you don’t have the right to not incriminate yourself and if you don’t provide a password to am encrypted device you can be jailed until you do.

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Re:Netflix Europe offices raided in tax fraud probe by echoangle on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @02:14PM (#42054358)

You have a right to not help them, but you can’t actively destroy evidence. Do you think it would be fine to begin burning documents once the police comes to you office?

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Re:Netflix Europe offices raided in tax fraud probe by ExoticPearTree on Thursday November 07, 2024 @08:14PM (#42083107)

Funny, but you actually can. It is their job to prove that whatever you destroyed was the evidence they were looking for.

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Re:Netflix Europe offices raided in tax fraud probe by charlieyu1 on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @01:24PM (#42053951)

I guess locally encrypted files in my computer is a problem as well then

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Re:Netflix Europe offices raided in tax fraud probe by alexey-salmin on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @01:34PM (#42054040)

In many jurisdictions it actually is a problem

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law

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