Nonprofit finance, accounting, and tax news. Other tidbits of interest to the charity community.
If you come across some things that make you think there are some shenanigans going on, your first reaction will be to look at it some more.
While you will obviously want to look at something so you can understand it, don’t get too far into an investigation. If you think you’re looking at actual fraud, you need help. Someone trained in investigations.
I have a series of posts up on my other blog, Outrun Change, discussing the radical changes in how books, music, and video are distributed today without having to use a traditional middleman. There is a dramatic shift when it doesn’t cost anything to make and distribute one more copy of something.
This doesn’t just impact writers and musicians. This has a huge impact on nonprofits that want to get their message or resources out, or businesses that want to start producing materials for education and promotion.
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Software from an outfit called Carrier IQ seems to be available for all the smartphones, if it is not already loaded on all of them. Their software can track everything you do, down to monitoring key strokes and web sites visited.
So what? Think passwords to bank accounts, apps used, all data searches performed and what results were viewed.
Remember the discussion on your phone tracking your location every moment? This goes beyond location tracking.