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KREMLIN PROPAGANDA: How Putin’s information war seeped
into seemingly independent media in Eastern Europe. “The websites presented
themselves as independent news outlets, but in fact, editorial lines were
dictated directly by Moscow,” Buzzfeed News reported.
Why Technology Favors Tyranny The Atlantic
How London's streets are paved with dirty money
Why Technology Favors Tyranny The Atlantic
How London's streets are paved with dirty money
Will artificial intelligence spell the death of the artist as we know it?
With computers getting better at "creative thinking", digital artist Chris Rodley thinks we may be approaching a watershed moment
Agencies need to improve their compliance with requirements governing the procurement of consultancy services. These requirements help agencies access procurement savings. Also, some agencies have under-reported consultancy fees in their annual reports for the 2016-17 financial year, according to a ...
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Shane Snow - Three perfect examples from the Atlassian Summit of how embracing diversity and conflict changed human history
The intensity of tax authority interaction, both in detail of data and timeliness of required responses, is rapidly increasing across Asia-Pacific. Gary Folland, Director of Digital Innovation and Research, Enterprise Solutions & Technology from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO), spoke about how the ATO will present viewpoints from multiple data sources to help taxpayers comply. To support this influx of information, the ATO have increased their ability to process data by engaging with data scientists. The ATO is keen to work with taxpayers at the front end of system design – to assure the integrity of the process upfront, rather than audit what comes out of it later on.
Do tax authorities know more about you than you do?
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READ: Former President Barack Obama’s eulogy for Sen. John McCain CNN. Full text of Obama’s eulogy. “… [W]hen all was said and done, we were on the same team. We never doubted we were on the same team.”
"Two heads are better than one – but only if they think differently"Shane Snow - Three perfect examples from the Atlassian Summit of how embracing diversity and conflict changed human history
The intensity of tax authority interaction, both in detail of data and timeliness of required responses, is rapidly increasing across Asia-Pacific. Gary Folland, Director of Digital Innovation and Research, Enterprise Solutions & Technology from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO), spoke about how the ATO will present viewpoints from multiple data sources to help taxpayers comply. To support this influx of information, the ATO have increased their ability to process data by engaging with data scientists. The ATO is keen to work with taxpayers at the front end of system design – to assure the integrity of the process upfront, rather than audit what comes out of it later on.
Do tax authorities know more about you than you do?
NEW YORK POST EDITORIAL: We Should All Be Worried About Google’s Power
The secret charge the government did not want revealed
The Opposition says secret emails show the government wanted to keep an admin fee a secret from motorists.
The Great Rare-Book Road-Trip Crime Spree Of 1980 (And Its Ignominious End)
A pair of thieves spent that summer driving from Texas to Maryland to Illinois, going into university libraries and cutting out lithographs and engravings from 19th-century naturalist journals and newsweeklies that they would sell piece by piece – until, at last, they were foiled by a foolhardy change of method and an air-conditioning maintenance man.
Why your boss is allowed to read your emails
"Your work computer and everything on it is not as private as you may think." (ABC)
Victorian health campaign sees positive results with more active women
"Diverse representation of women – both in terms of body type and cultural background – has been key to success." (The Guardian)
Public sector virtues v private sector values?
"The differences between the two organisational cultures are not as great as often imagined." (The Canberra Times)
Finding Open Access Articles – Tools & Tips
LITA Blog – Ashley Farley – This guide is meant to help individuals, of any background, search more easily for open access articles.
“One of the pillars of libraries is facilitating access to the large corpus of existing knowledge. Typically this requires accessing gated information through a publisher or other service provider. Each institution can manage access to subscriptions in a way that works best for their communities – usually either by IP authentication or login credentials. This can be cumbersome for affiliates when not working onsite as there are often additional barriers to subscription access. Often this can require using Remote Desktop or a VPN to connect to a network before access is recognized. For the institution where I work this involves 10 – 15 clicks with two verification steps (one login and one requiring verification clicks on a mobile phone). This is how each off site journal access begins. I can’t help but think in these moments that open access is just technically easier. Often it is one or two clicks – no additional verification needed. It eliminates the need to know whether or not your institution hosts a specific subscription. You know you have access and you have access now. However, the discovery process for open access articles isn’t necessarily the same as subscription searching. Especially if you do not have access to specific subscription databases.”
Nilay Patel, editor-in-chief, The Verge: “Today, The Verge is publishing an interim edition of Sarah Jeong’s The Internet of Garbage, a book she first published in 2015 that has since gone out of print. It is a thorough and important look at the intractable problem of online harassment. After a year on The Verge’s staff as a senior writer, Sarah recently joined The New York Times Editorial Board to write about technology issues. The move kicked off a wave of outrage and controversy as a group of trolls selectively took Sarah’s old tweets out of context to inaccurately claim that she is a racist. This prompted a further wave of unrelenting racist harassment directed at Sarah, a wave of coverage examining her tweets, and a final wave of coverage about the state of outrage generally. This is all deeply ironic because Sarah laid out exactly how these bad-faith tactics work in The Internet of Garbage. Lost in all of this noise was the fact that Sarah Jeong is an actual person — a person who was an integral and beloved part of The Verge’s team and a deeply respected journalist for years before that. Her extensive reporting on online communities, norms, and harassment is rigorous and insightful in a way that few others have ever matched. Discussing Sarah’s tweets in a vacuum without contending with her life’s actual work in the very field of online communities and harassment is, quite frankly, ridiculous. The Internet of Garbage provides an immediate and accessible look at how online harassment works, how it might be categorized and distinguished, and why the structure of the internet and the policies surrounding it are overwhelmed in fighting it. Sarah has long planned to publish an updated and expanded second edition, but in this particular moment, I am pleased that she’s allowed us to publish this interim edition with a new preface…”
In that new preface, Sarah stresses that her original text was written from a place of optimism. But the years since have not been kind to internet culture. She writes that the tactics of Gamergate, so clearly on display during the harassment campaign waged against her over the last few weeks, have “overtaken our national political and cultural conversations.” That new culture is driven by the shape of the internet and the interactions it fosters. “We are all victims of fraud in the marketplace of ideas,” she writes.
I hope everyone with a true and sincere interest in improving our online communities reads The Internet of Garbage and contends with the scope of the problem Sarah lays out in its pages. We are making the entire text of The Internet of Garbage 1.5 available for free as a PDF, ePub, and .mobi ebook file, and for the minimum allowed price of $.99 in the Amazon Kindle store. Below, we have excerpted Chapter 3, “Lessons from
Reuters has just published an article titled Swiss watchdog to propose looser anti-money laundering rules for fintechs. (Fintech is short for “financial + technology” and it is about bringing technology into the financial sector. Switzerland’s move is, apparently:
Equally disturbing, tax havens are rapidly jumping on the Fintech bandwagon. Jersey has set up a “regulatory sandbox” to allow certain startups to operate “without the normal registration requirements and associated costs.” The Isle of Man, another tax havens, has “thrown its arms wide open” to cryptocurrencies. In the words of Appleby, the star of the Paradise Papers:
The word “crypto” should offer a clue — in this case, secrecy. Bitcoin, the best know of these currencies, is not just a vehicle for secrecy and crime, but also a way for those running the system to abuse millions of poor mugs who thought they could get rich by buying into this once in a lifetime opportunity (a “fraud worse than tulip bulbs,” as a top banker put it.)
Reuters has just published an article titled Swiss watchdog to propose looser anti-money laundering rules for fintechs. (Fintech is short for “financial + technology” and it is about bringing technology into the financial sector. Switzerland’s move is, apparently:
part of a drive to boost innovation and shore up the country’s position as a leading money management hub.”For the appropriate context for this, see a recent FT Alphaville column entitled Fintech as a gateway for criminal enterprise. It focuses on money transmission services, but it’s part of an Alphaville series examining the dark side of fintech, which is disturbingly large.
Equally disturbing, tax havens are rapidly jumping on the Fintech bandwagon. Jersey has set up a “regulatory sandbox” to allow certain startups to operate “without the normal registration requirements and associated costs.” The Isle of Man, another tax havens, has “thrown its arms wide open” to cryptocurrencies. In the words of Appleby, the star of the Paradise Papers:
The Isle of Man Government appears keen not to suffocate this evolving area with onerous regulation.”If that doesn’t set the warning lights flashing take a look at sleazier tax havens, like Malta, which is a “hotbed for fintech: and which has dived in with “Bitcoin ATMs.” Or try the Russian enclave and “Special Economic Zone” of Kaliningrad, where participants enthuse that
Whatever is not illegal is legal . . . there are no laws regarding cryptocurrency mining because it’s a new kind of business.”And that gets to the nub of the issue with fintech. It is racing ahead of regulatory protections for consumers and wider society — and that can be a highly profitable place to be. Which is why it is so compatible with the offshore tax haven model: these places are in the business of offering escape routes from the rules. As one of the boosters of this technology puts it — a booster with the fitting name of ‘escape artist’ — Cryptocurrency Is The New Tax Haven.
The word “crypto” should offer a clue — in this case, secrecy. Bitcoin, the best know of these currencies, is not just a vehicle for secrecy and crime, but also a way for those running the system to abuse millions of poor mugs who thought they could get rich by buying into this once in a lifetime opportunity (a “fraud worse than tulip bulbs,” as a top banker put it.)