Apple Scores Victory in Fight Over Encryption As we posted previously, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook has gone on the offensive to oppose a government order that Apple develop code to assist the FBI in its efforts to access a iPhone used by the shooters in the December San Bernardino attack. Apple immediately won the support of…
FTC Watch 2014 Priorities, Enforcement Update and the Battle over Cyber Security When FTC Chair Ramirez tapped Jessica Rich to head the Consumer Protection Bureau, AdWeek noted: Rich’s appointment signals the agency will likely be aggressive in shaping privacy policy and bringing privacy enforcement actions, a goal Ramirez articulated in her first public appearance in early March.…
Apple’s iTaxDodge Since this program aired as part of our annual Tax Day edition, the Senate Committee on Investigations released a study finding that Apple has been very aggressive in pursuing offshore tax shelters. How aggressive? Well, it shifted $30 billion in income for 2009-2012 to an Irish subsidiary that had no employees. That’s right,…
This week features Pulitizer Prize winning journalist and author David Cay Johnston to discuss the use of tax havens by US business such as Apple which has over $121 billion offshore to avoid an approximately $28 billion tax liability. Click here for more background. In Segment Two we talk with some of the more interesting…
Who Won and Why With Pollster Michael O’Neil Michael J. O’Neil is President of O’Neil Associates, a national public opinion research firm based in Tempe, Arizona. O’Neil Associates has conducted more than 1,700 opinion research surveys in the last 35 years for entities including Fortune 100 companies, law firms, labor unions, hospitals, utilities, nonprofits, and…
Cyber Attacks Jump 81 Percent in 2011 Symantec’s annual internet security threat report reports that Symantec blocked over 5.5 billion attacks in 2011 – an increase of 81 percent. The report also details that hackers exposed 187 million identities in 2011; mobile vulnerabilities increased 93 percent and advanced targeted attacks spread to organizations of all…
Rebecca Wilkins (shown above talking about Mitt Romney’s offshore shelters) is Senior Counsel for Federal Tax Policy for the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP). ITEP is a non-profit, non-partisan research organization that works on federal, state, and local tax policy issues. ITEP’s mission is to ensure that elected officials, the media, and the general…
Crowd-Funding Close to Winning Congressional Approval By a wide margin, the Senate joined the House in approving legislation that would permit companies to raise capital by crowd-funding. The Senate CROWDFUND Act (Capital Raising Online While Deterring Fraud and Unethical Non-Disclosure Act) and the JOBS ACT (Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act) generally permit companies to raise up to $1 million…
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