Apple could be planning a budget-friendly iPhone X with advanced capabilities ...
If you say something is 'likely', how likely do people think it is?
"When you use a word to describe the likelihood of a probabilistic outcome, you have a lot of wiggle room to make yourself look good after the fact." (Harvard Business Review)
Australian Public Service to start running citizen-satisfaction surveys
Dr Martin Parkinson ramps up his campaign for a more responsive and capability-rich bureaucracy, gathering data on what Australians think about dealing with federal agencies, and calling out agencies that outsource core functions.
Be wary of ‘polishing the problem’
NERIDA O’LOUGHLIN: Fast-moving times require fast-moving regulatory responses ‒ consumers expect it. While major legislative reform can be hard for governments, we can’t let that be an excuse for inaction.
Toothless DTA no longer the disruptor some want for the public service
VERONA BURGESS: Age-old arguments of centralised power versus the merits of devolution have bogged down an opportunity to get to the heart of why digital transformation across government is struggling at an administrative level.
Imran Awan Gets Sweetheart Plea Deal And Feds Drop House Cybersecurity Investigation
Everything you need to know about investing in cryptocurrencies
A tax on knowledge: the digital penalty | Financial Times
Trump lawyers call Comey ‘Machiavellian’ in note to Mueller - WASHINGTON (AP) — “Lawyers for President Donald Trump unleashed a blistering attack on former FBI Director James Comey in a confidential memo last year to the special counsel, casting him as “Machiavellian,” dishonest and “unbounded by law and regulation” as they sought to undermine the credibility of a law enforcement leader they see as a critical witness against the president. The letter, obtained by The Associated Press, underscores the intense effort by Trump’s legal team over the last year to tarnish Comey’s reputation and pit the president’s word against that of the former FBI director. Comey’s firing in May 2017 helped set in motion the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller, and one-on-one conversations with Trump that Comey documented in a series of memos helped form the basis of Mueller’s inquiry into whether the president obstructed justice. The June 27, 2017, letter was written by Marc Kasowitz, then the president’s lead lawyer, as Mueller and his team were in the early stages of their investigation into Trump associates and as they had begun examining whether the president, by firing Comey, had sought to stymie an FBI investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia. The White House initially pointed as justification for the firing to a Justice Department memo that faulted Comey for his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation, though Trump later said that “this Russia thing” was on his mind when he made the move…”
- Text of memos: https://www.apnews.com/a63dd6001a0c4796a23a3380337a8715/Text-of-Trump-team-memos-to-special-counsel-assailing-Comey
Washington Post, Private Tax Collection Agencies Lose Money While Going After the Poor:
In
its zeal to privatize important parts of the government, the
Republican-controlled Congress directed the Internal Revenue Service to
use private debt collectors for certain tax delinquencies, a program
that began last year.
The
Obama administration cautioned against the use of bill collectors
before legislation authorizing the program passed in 2015. Those
warnings went unheeded.
Now, the program is losing money and unfairly hitting the poor.
