France Says it is Going Ahead with Digital Tax France has been complaining that U.S. companies (mostly) have not been paying their fair share of French taxes since they are not selling widgets that delivered in France, so they came up with this digital tax, a 3% tax on digital services delivered in France. They […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Amazon added a new feature, very quietly (I wonder why – not) last year to some Ring products and some Echo products. Amazon Sidewalk takes some of your Internet bandwidth (a small amount) and lets your Ring/Echo enabled neighbors use it in case their Internet goes down (and vice versa). What could possibly go wrong. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]First the wise guy answers: Too Long and It Depends. Unfortunately, both are true. For a lot of companies, 30 to 60 days seems to be the average. Company size doesn’t seem to be a factor. We recently worked with a smallish company (less than 150 people) and it was 30 days before they were […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The California Privacy Rights Act, CPRA, AKA Prop 24, was approved by voters on November 3rd. This is a continuing story on its potential impact. Some simple answers first: When does it go into effect: January 1, 2023. Who has to comply: That is still murky. There was a $25 million revenue minimum in CCPA […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Senate Passes Legislation to Protect Against Deep Fakes While I agree that deep fakes – photos and videos that use tech to make it look like someone is saying something or doing something that they never did – can be nasty, is that really the best use of the Senate’s time right now? In any […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]When Covid happened 9 months ago no one really knew what to expect. I am not sure that anyone still knows what to expect, but it looks like that Work From Home (WFH) is here to stay. Many companies have decided that it has not negatively impacted productivity and some even say that productivity is […]
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