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The first step to fix corporate tax dodging is to expose who pays and who doesn’t pay their fair share. To that end, MWM is launching TAXDATA. Jason Ward explains.
Eleven years of data. With a keystroke or two you can now find out who are Australia’s ‘lifters’ and who are the ‘leaners’. Tech bros, fossil fuel exporters, banks and property giants; you name it.
TAXDATA is a collaboration with the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), CICTAR and the Tax Justice Network Australia. It contains data on thousands of companies, including their revenue, profit, and tax payments over the last eleven years.
With the federal budget not far away, the usual complaints will be about increases in government spending. But most rational Australians want the government to spend more on essential public services, not less.
People want better public roads and infrastructure
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“A case like this helps the government kind of see how far they can go in criminalizing constitutionally protected protest,” one legal advocate said.
Steve Scherer was a Reuters’ bureau chief in Canada. Then he got laid off, had to leave the country, and now drives for Uber in Virginia, in a country he doesn’t recognize anymore after working for 28 years abroad.
From Iran to Ukraine, everyone’s trying to hack security cameras
Ars Technica: “Research shows apparent Iranian state hackers trying to hijack consumer-grade cameras. For decades, satellites, drones, and human spotters have all been part of war’s surveillance and reconnaissance tool kit.
In an age of cheap, insecure, Internet-connected consumer devices, however, militaries have gained another powerful set of eyes on the ground: every hackable security camera installed outside a home or on a city street, pointed at potential bombing targets. On Wednesday, Tel Aviv–based security firm Check Point released new research describing hundreds of hacking attempts that targeted consumer-grade security cameras around the Middle East—with many apparently timed to Iran’s recent missile and drone strikes on targets that included Israel, Qatar, and Cyprus.
Those camera-hijacking efforts, some of which Check Point has attributed to a hacker group that’s been previously linked to Iranian intelligence, suggest that Iran’s military has tried to use civilian surveillance cameras as a means to spot targets, plan strikes, or assess damage from its attacks as it retaliates for the US and Israeli bombings that have sparked a widening war in the region. Iran wouldn’t be the first to adopt that camera-hacking surveillance tactic.
Earlier this week, the Financial Times reportedthat the Israeli military had accessed “nearly all” the traffic cameras in Iran’s capital of Tehran and, in partnership with the CIA, used them to target the air strike that killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader. In Ukraine, the country’s officials have warned for years that Russia has hacked consumer surveillance cameras to target strikes and spy on troop movements—while Ukrainian hackers have hijacked Russian cameras to surveil Russian troops and perhaps even to monitor its own attacks…”
