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
By Lewis Nibbelin, Contributing Writer, Triple-I Heading into 2025, countless communities are still grappling with the $27 billion natural disasters that impacted the United States last year – a total driven by costly storms and severe inland flooding. Many affected residents lacked flood coverage and will rely almost exclusively on federal relief funding to recover, … Read more
Delivering Malware Through Abandoned Amazon S3 Buckets Here’s a supply-chain attack just waiting to happen. A group of researchers searched for, and then registered, abandoned Amazon S3 buckets for about $400. These buckets contained software libraries that are still used. Presumably the projects don’t realize that they have been abandoned, and still ping them for … Read more
