This post is part of a series sponsored by IAT Insurance Group. The post-pandemic workplace has brought significant changes to the employment liability landscape. Disability discrimination and retaliation claims have emerged as some of the most complex and frequent issues, often stemming from evolving workplace dynamics, heightened regulatory expectations, and procedural missteps. In fact, the … Read more
Bolivia is currently experiencing a severe economic crisis, driven by the decline in natural gas production and exports—a key source of national revenue—along with a shortage of U.S. dollars, high inflation, and fuel shortages. These shortages have particularly highlighted the role of fuel smuggling in sustaining the informal economy, especially artisanal mining, which in some … Read more
The story of how hackers managed to compromise the US Government’s official SEC Twitter account to boost the price of Bitcoins, AI isn’t helping reduce the rife conspiracy theories inside classrooms, and is the funeral bell tolling for ransomware? All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by … Read more
The enormous VAT bill that Italian tax authorities have presented to Meta, based on the estimated value of the data that they have received from users in return for their services, has recently been in the news. Tax on personal data has the potential to deal quite a blow to the business model of online … Read more
When the Social Security Fairness Act was signed into law on January 5, 2025, it came as a relief to many recipients of state or local government pensions whose Social Security benefits had been, up until now, reduced by the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) for individuals claiming retirement benefits under their own name, or the … Read more
