Public Address 12 Sep 2013: The Strange Tax on Your Internet

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Public Address 12 September 2013 - The Strange Tax on Your Internet

The Strange Tax on Your Internet
10:40 Sep 12, 2013 in Speaker by Paul Brislen
When I first started as a tech reporter at Computerworld back in 1997 I remember one Russell Brown gleefully proposing a cover story that consisted mainly of quotes from then Minister of Communications Maurice Williamson threatening to take action over…
http://publicaddress.net/speaker/the-strange-tax-on-your-internet/

The shaky ground of psychometric testing
10:00 Sep 10, 2013 in Hard News by Russell Brown
The Dominion Post reports today that the state agencies that spent $1.5 million on psychometric testing last year may have been on shaky legal ground. It might also have added that they're basically standing on some pretty shaky science too.
http://publicaddress.net/hardnews/the-shaky-ground-of-psychometric-testing/

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