Microsoft And Meta Detail Plans To Combat “Election Disinformation” — Including Watermarks For Memes And More “Fact Checkers”
By Didi Rankovic And so it begins. In fact, it hardly ever stops – another election cycle is well on its way in the US….
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WEF Publishes Post on Digital “Battery Passport,” Described as “a digital ID for batteries”
By Didi Rankovic The World Economic Forum (WEF) has taken up yet another climate change and “clean green energy” cause: car-battery footprint, and what to…
Pakistan is Making Disbursement of Aid to Flood Victims Contingent on Biometric Verification
By Didi Rankovic In August, Pakistan was hit by severe flooding that caused extensive damage to large rural areas in the country, and yet, to…
IMF Meeting: CBDC Should be Tied to Digital IDs to “push society into to new equilibriums”
By Didi Rankovic Governments and financial institutions are increasingly warming to the idea of introducing Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) – central banks’ digital tokens,…
European Commission Wants to Allow Real-time Biometric Identification Surveillance in Some Circumstances
By Didi Rankovic EU’s proposed Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act, drafted by the European Commission, was under the spotlight for the first time last week in…
Japan Makes Big Steps Towards a Cashless Society
By Didi Rankovic If all goes to plan, by the spring of next year, companies in Japan will be able to use a system to…
WEF Pushing Carbon Allowance Surveillance System to Track Personal Emissions
By Didi Rankovic The World Economic Forum (WEF) is publishing ideas about yet another reason, or excuse, to deploy more surveillance technology: this time it’s…
The White House Defends Social Media Platform Collusion
By Didi Rankovic The White House continues to try to “play dumb” regarding what many consider to be scandalous revelations about its influence on, or…
Australian Banks Embrace Digital ID
By Didi Rankovic Australia’s major banks: ANZ, CBA, NAB and Westpac, are happy with EFTPOS’ payment system known as ConnectID to provide the national digital…
World Economic Forum Suggests There Are “rational” Reasons to Microchip Your Child
By Didi Rankovic The latest highly controversial technology/policy that the World Economic Forum (WEF) has set out to normalize is the idea of implanting tracking…
The World Economic Forum and World Trade Organization Push “global digital identity of persons and objects”
By Didi Rankovic The World Economic Forum’s obsession with not only merely digitization, but digitalization as a means of tracking and control, is manifest in…
Digital ID Companies Thrived During the Pandemic. Only Now Are Their Privacy Claims Being Challenged.
By Didi Rankovic One of the pandemic “winners” – a member of a large group of companies that appeared and grew exponentially to serve the…
Algorithms are Being Used to Help Determine if Kids Should be Taken From Their Parents
By Didi Rankovic The limitations of algorithms today in terms of accuracy regarding context and nuance is evident even to a casual observer, most notably…
The FBI Boosts Its Social Media Surveillance Technology
By Didi Rankovic Both US law enforcement and Babel Street CEO Jeffrey Chapman seem to like to keep it in the family: Chapman is a…