Bill Buckley’s conservative irregulars. In its early days, the National Review’s staff included a former spokesman for Leon Trotsky, a nocturnal ex-Communist, Russell Kirk...and Jozef Imrich
Cybercriminals now targeting tax pros to cash in on fraudulent returns
Tax fraud is big business for cyber criminals. Last year Internet crimes netted the perpetrators $445 billion, with tax fraud as a primary focus, according to IBM Security, which monitors cyber crimes. "We had about 75 tax professionals report that they had been victims of some sort of a tax payer breach. So that unfortunately is ...
When Identity Thieves Hack Your Accountant Krebs on Security
When Identity Thieves Hack Your Accountant Krebs on Security
Identity thieves who specialize in tax refund fraud
have been busy of late hacking online accounts at multiple tax
preparation firms and using them to file phony refund .....
Living in Goebbels Land Craig Murray
U.S.-U.K. Warning on Cyberattacks Includes Private HomesNew York Times
Nextgov - April 11,
2018
The Homeland Security
Department isn’t doing enough to secure classified information on its
intelligence systems, according to a report summary out Wednesday from the
department’s inspector general
AusPost to coax bill payments via smartphone, smart home
Public servants free to criticise under fake names: tribunal.
Such comments cannot possibly reflect badly on their employers, the AAT found in ruling for former public servant Michaela Banerji who tweets as @LaLegale.
A former Immigration official sacked over tweets critical of Australia's asylum seeker policy has won a fight for compensation, after an appeals tribunal found her dismissal was unlawful and described government efforts to restrict anonymous comments from its employees as Orwellian.The decision on Monday will redirect scrutiny to the Immigration Department's dismissal of Michaela Banerji for tweeting criticisms of detention policies, and challenges Australian Public Service rules stopping public servants from expressing their political views on social media.
'Thoughtcrime': Immigration official sacked for tweets wins compensation
Reviving a demoralised workforce at the UK's Serious Fraud Office
Aspiring MP nabbed for fraud
The Guardian: “A businessman has won his legal action to remove search results about a criminal conviction in a landmark “right to be forgotten” case that could have wide-ranging repercussions.
IRS Says Fewer Than 100 People Have Reported Bitcoin Holdings So Far Investopedia Yves: “Wellie, the IRS could have a lot of fun if it wants to!”
Multinationals mollycoddled: former ATO official calls for tax secrecy to go - Mike West - Martin Lock
Multinationals mollycoddled: former ATO official calls for tax secrecy to go - Mike West - Martin Lock
Facebook, Google and other tech companies are accused of stealing our data or at least of using it without our permission to become extraordinarily rich. Now is the time, say the critics, to stand up and take back our data. Ours, ours, ours.
In this way of thinking, our data is like our lawnmower and Facebook is a pushy neighbor who saw that our garage door was open, took our lawnmower, made a quick buck mowing people’s lawns, and now refuses to give our lawnmower back. Take back our lawnmower!
The reality is far different.
What could be more ours than our friends? Yet I have hundreds of friends on Facebook, most of whom I don’t know well and have never met. But my Facebook friends are friends. We share common interests and, most of the time, I’m happy to see what they are thinking and doing and I’m pleased when they show interest in what I’m up to. If, before Facebook existed, I had been asked to list “my friends,” I would have had a hard time naming ten friends, let alone hundreds. My Facebook friends didn’t exist before Facebook. My Facebook friendships are not simply my data—they are a unique co-creation of myself, my friends, and, yes, Facebook.
“Transparency is critical when it comes to decision-making that broadly affects the public, particularly when it comes to policies purported to be grounded in scientific evidence. The scientific community has been increasingly focused on improving the transparency of research through initiatives that represent good-faith efforts to enhance the robustness of scientific findings and to increase access to and utility of data that underlie research. Yet, concerns about transparency associated with scientific results continue to emerge in political discussions. Most recently in the United States, a new proposal by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would eliminate the use of publications in its policy discussions for which all underlying data are not publicly available. Here, a push for transparency appears actually to be a mechanism for suppressing important scientific evidence in policy-making, thereby threatening the public’s well-being…”
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