The federal government's proposed tax on digital advertising could raise up to $200 million a year and has wide-reaching ramifications for Corporate Australia.
... ... Treasurer Scott Morrison flagged plans in his budget speech to treat $7 billion in annual Australian sales recorded offshore by US-owned media giants Google, Facebook, eBay, Uber, Twitter, Linked-In and others as taxable here – just as the United States has finally resolved that this revenue is taxable by the Internal Revenue Service.
Amazon, Google, and Microsoft all pitch assorted artificially intelligent image, facial, and data analysis services to paying customers in both the public and private sector, to say nothing of the other vendors that solicit government IT business for hosted or on-premises products. Amazon, for one, services the CIA, and its AWS cloud platform is backed by Uncle Sam's snoops.
This is why local elections matter. Just because this is for sale does not mean that your local police department has to buy it.
To the Authors’ knowledge, research has not explored data brokers’ rent-seeking behavior and how it will further inequality in accessing credible data—or “data inequality.” The Authors contend that without a federal mission to ensure cost-free access to personal data for research and public access purposes, data brokers’ sale of such data will potentially lead to biased or inaccurate research results. This development would further the interests of the educated wealthy at the expense of the general public
The Tax Office began contacting 106 Australian private clients of Credit Suisse on Tuesday over $900 million in suspicious transactions linked to secret numbered accounts.
... ... The Minister for Revenue and Financial Services, Kelly O'Dwyer, told The Australian Financial Review the Australians had been identified as high risk, noting links to "Swiss banking relationship managers alleged to have actively promoted and facilitated tax evasion schemes".
When one looks at the exceptionally bad results of our health care system, at least if “health” “care” be the standard for judging, it’s hard to believe that health care, which is, at its heart, a social relation between patient and caregivers (doctors, nurses, etc.) is not one such area. Neoliberal drunks are looking for their keys to health care under the lamp-post of the marketplace (“the streetlight effect“), and they’re not doing very well, are they? Perhaps they should be led gently away, and we should, as I’ve said, simply ask the Canadians to tell us what to do. Why not learn from success?
The government has all kinds of secrets, but only a true conspiracy theorist might suspect that "psycho-electric weapons" are one of them. So it's odd that MuckRock, a news organization that specializes in filing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with state and federal government bodies, received mysterious documents about mind control, seemingly by accident.
.... ... Journalist Curtis Waltman was writing to the Washington State Fusion Center (WSFC), a joint operation between Washington State law enforcement and the federal government to request information about Antifa and white supremacist groups. He got responses to the questions he asked, but also a file titled “EM effects on human body.zip.”
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC, Commission, or we) will conduct a public hearing to receive information from all interested parties about potential safety issues and hazards associated with internet-connected consumer products. The information received from the public hearing will be used to inform future Commission risk management work. The Commission also requests written comments.
If you have an opinion about this, NOW the time to comment.
"Who alone has reason to *lie himself out* of actuality? He who *suffers* from it." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
