Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse Report – “The latest Internal Revenue Service (IRS) statistics covering federal income tax audits through February of 2022 reveals that the agency is continuing to target audits on the poorest wage earners. So far it has completed 132,922 audits of these low-income wage earners with less than $25,000 in total gross… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: March 2022
Keeping Communities Connected
ALA – New report spotlights creative library broadband services during the pandemic – “America’s libraries have long been a cornerstone for equitable access to information and broadband services. The country’s nearly 17,000 public libraries offer no-fee internet access, Wi-Fi, and devices, such as computers and tablets. Many offer formal digital skills building classes, informal assistance… Continue Reading
EPA Eliminating Its Web Archive
Via Patrice McDermott, Government Information Watch, [h/t Mike Ravnitzsky] – “Come July 2022, the EPA plans to retire the archive containing old news releases, policy changes, regulatory actions, and more. The Verge reports – ‘The archive was never built to be a permanent repository of content, and maintaining the outdated site was no longer “cost effective,” the EPA… Continue Reading
Pete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 26, 2022
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 26, 2022 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly… Continue Reading
High levels of grease-resistant chemicals known as PFAS can be found in food packaging from prominent fast food and grocery store brands
Consumer Reports – “Alarming levels of dangerous chemicals known as PFAS were discovered in food packaging at a number of well-known fast-food and fast-casual restaurants and grocery store chains, a new report found. The highest levels of indicators for PFAS were found in food packaging from Nathan’s Famous, Cava, Arby’s, Burger King, Chick-fil-A, Stop &… Continue Reading
The World Is Splitting in Two
The Atlantic: “The Russian invasion of Ukraine and a series of COVID-related shutdowns in China do not, on the surface, appear to have much in common. Yet both are accelerating a shift that is taking the world in a dangerous direction, splitting it into two spheres, one centered on Washington, D.C., the other on Beijing.… Continue Reading
Best encryption software 2022
TechRepublic: “Encryption is the process of securing information by translating it into a sort of computer code that is unreadable to anyone not possessing the right credentials, passwords or other authentication means to access this information. This code can theoretically be cracked or broken but strong encryption methods are nearly impervious to such manipulation. Encryption… Continue Reading
How American Culture Ate the World
The New Republic: “A new book explains why Americans know so little about other countries…How did cultural globalization in the twentieth century travel along such a one-way path? And why is the U.S.—that globe-bestriding colossus with more than 700 overseas bases—so strangely isolated? The answer, Sam Lebovic’s new book, A Righteous Smokescreen: Postwar America and the… Continue Reading
Schools nationwide are quietly removing books from their libraries
Washington Post: “Meet the librarians fighting bans and scrambling to preserve children’s freedom to read..Slowly — over months of meetings, investigations and secret conversations with fearful librarians across her counties — she came to understand the disturbing reality. Administrators, afraid of attracting controversy, were quietly removing books from library shelves before they could be challenged.… Continue Reading
Intelligent Legal Tech to Empower Self-Represented Litigants
Schmitz, Amy J. and Zeleznikow, John, Intelligent Legal Tech to Empower Self-Represented Litigants (March 2, 2022). Ohio State Legal Studies Research Paper No. 688, 23 COLUMBIA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LAW REVIEW 142-190 (2022) at https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/stlr/article/view/9391/4800, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4048335 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4048335 “Legal technologies, or “legal tech,” are disrupting the practice of law and providing efficiencies… Continue Reading
Lawsky Practice Problems
“This website is created and maintained by Sarah Lawsky, a tax law professor at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. The website uses Dash and Python and is freely available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 license. Q: What does this website do? A: It generates multiple-choice practice problems for federal income tax and partnership… Continue Reading
How to share huge files online
Popular Science – “When you decide to share a large file or folder online—perhaps you want to send a cute home movie to a doting relative, or need to back up a photo archive to a secondary location—you can’t just attach it to an email. Under the virtual weight of all those 1s and 0s,… Continue Reading
