Here is an interesting effect of the sanctions against Russia. According to the Russian news outlet Kommersant, which claims to have sources confirming this proposal, the parties estimated they have roughly two months left before running out of available storage space. Russian firms were forced, as a result of sanctions, to turn to domestic cloud providers […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]First, who is NOT pulling out of Russia – at least not yet. Cloudflare and Akamai are not going to pull out of Russia. They say that pulling out would not hurt the Russian government but would hurt Russian citizens trying to access content outside of the country. Cloudflare says that if they shut down, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Utah House of Representatives unanimously passed a consumer privacy bill which the Senate passed earlier this year. The governor is expected to sign it and has 20 days to veto it. This bill has a higher threshold – it targets businesses who target Utah residents, have an annual gross revenue of over $25 million […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The U.S. and the E.U. have been struggling for years over data flow of E.U. residents to the United States. Curiously, their big complaint is that the NSA is a spy agency and they intercept communications. The way the E.U. constructed GDPR, their intelligence agencies are exempt from complying with the law – but ours […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The whole model of loyalty programs is how do we make them so hard to use that we can pretend we are giving people something when, in fact, we are not really. Enter the airlines. They give out frequent flyer miles for all kinds of things from actual airline tickets to anything that you buy […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Swiss banking world has always been secret. Very secret. Even after the U.S. worked out a deal to try and get information from the Swiss for tax evasion reasons, there is still not much transparency. Credit Suisse has had its share of troubles recently including helping wealthy customers evade taxes, engaging in illegal business […]
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