Canada is mulling over the idea that customers pay for their own phone surveillance
Canadian Bill C-30 proposes a tax on people purchasing internet and phone services so that the cost of paying for surveillance equipment or responding to Law Enforcement lookups will not burden either the government or the ISP/Phone Company. Canada plans on taxing users of systems so that they can be monitored by the government. There [...]
Wave Goes Payroll
I’ve written before about Wave Accounting, a vendor that is hoping to turn SMB accounting software on its head by delivering a product at a zero price point and monetizing through the smart utilization of aggregate data. The jury is out as to SMBs appetite for their data being used, and whether it is viable [...]
Special Immigration Policy for Startup Founders
Eric Ries over at Startup Lessons Learned has an interesting proposal on his blog about having a special immigration policy for alien immigrants to stay if they start a new company. Eric was recently at Government 2.0 where the proposal was made by Paul Graham. This raises some interesting questions about how immigrants and small [...]
