By concealing identities, cryptocurrencies fuel cybercrime
Sep 26, 2017 02:47 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology Digital Currency Law
When hackers hold their victims data for ransom, as happened in the WannaCry and NotPetya ransomware attacks that spread across the globe in mid-2017, a key to the criminals success is getting away with the money. That...
Privatised land title offices can harness new technologies to provide a better service
Sep 26, 2017 00:56 am UTC| Insights & Views Law Technology
Its highly likely that all Australians buying or selling property or subdividing land will soon be dealing with privately operated land title registries. Both sides of politics in Australia appear supportive of privatising...
London Uber ban: regulators are finally catching up with technology
Sep 26, 2017 00:54 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology Law
In what could be a major blow to the gig economy, Transport for London (TFL) has refused to renew Ubers licence to operate in the UK capital its largest European market on the grounds that its approach and conduct...
China’s crackdown on cryptocurrency trading – a sign of things to come
Sep 25, 2017 12:13 pm UTC| Digital Currency Law
The Chinese governments decision to order several Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies exchanges to close shows how much of a threat they are perceived to be to financial stability and social order in China. The decision...
Bitcoin investors should be taxed like any other investor
Sep 25, 2017 07:20 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy Law Digital Currency
Despite its name, cryptocurrency isnt just money. It could also be debt or equity and so it should be regulated and taxed in the same way as other finance. The tokens investors get when they buy a cryptocurrency, like...
An ethical dilemma for doctors: When is it OK to prescribe opioids?
Sep 25, 2017 07:15 am UTC| Insights & Views Health Law
Americas opioid crisis is getting worse. The role of prescription opioids has both the medical establishment and the government justifiably worried. In response, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and...
Every year, millions try to navigate US courts without a lawyer
Sep 22, 2017 03:32 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Judge Richard A. Posner, a legendary judicial figure, retired abruptly earlier this month to make a point: People without lawyers are mistreated in the American legal system. In one of his final opinions as a judge on...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight