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xxx But it’s biggest problem are those trolls. They’re winning. Too often Twitter’s users are subject to pernicious streams of abuse and harassment. This dissuades new users from wanting to sign up, drives formerly loyal tweeters to close their accounts, and gives advertisers pause as they consider where to place their brand dollars. From StoppingContinue reading “Stopping Trolls Is Now Life and Death for Twitter — Backchannel”

xxx The 1,000-year-old practice of recording laws on goat and calf skin may be saved, after the House of Lords said it would consider an offer from the Cabinet Office to pay the costs of carrying on the tradition. From Tradition of recording UK laws on vellum may be saved | Politics | The GuardianContinue reading “Tradition of recording UK laws on vellum may be saved | Politics | The Guardian”

xxx It’s the banks, credit card companies, merchants, payment processors, terminal manufacturers and many others that have created this checkout catastrophe. But there’s a ray of hope: your smartphone. From Chip Card Nightmares? Help Is on the Way – WSJ xxx

A while back, my old chum Ed Conway from Sky TV (better known for his foreword to Identity is the New Money, of course) ran a nice story about the British cash paradox. It turns out that since the #Brexit vote, the amount of cash “in circulation” has soared (it’s gone up by nearly twoContinue reading “Is card fraud a barrier to cashlessness?”

xxx Information platforms such as 58.com, ganji.com and douban.com bear thousands of messages about how to rent student cards from different universities… The price of such cards ranges from less than 100 yuan to more than 1,000 yuan. Some cards are only available for only three months and other require a security deposit. From StudentsContinue reading “Students Rent ID Cards for Summer Profit (Local) | BEIJING TODAY”

xxx The information includes citizen resident numbers, passport information, home addresses, bank account details, phone numbers and family relations records. The information, saved on the company’s website (flyasiana.com) for the past several years, is believed to have been compromised. From [EXCLUSIVE] Asiana Airlines’ customer database leaked on Internet xxx

xxx Around 3 million mobile phone connections have been disconnected in Saudi after users failed to register their fingerprints in line with the new security measure instated by the Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC). From 3 million Saudi mobile phone connections cut due to fingerprint law – Technology – ArabianBusiness.com xxx

xxx InVenture, which is based in Santa Monica, California, but operates in Kenya, uses a mobile phone app to scrape data off a person’s mobile phone to give them a “financial identity”, as Ms Siroya puts it. The data range from mobile money spending patterns and calling and travel routines, to the way contacts areContinue reading “US fintech pioneer’s start-up in Kenya — FT.com”

snippet A bank’s role in future will be protecting your identity. Identity will be the biggest asset. [From Interview with Fidor Bank CEO as Group BPCE buys app-only bank – Business Insider] snippet

xxx A cryptography-protected ID, accessed by a unique combination of private and public keys and verified with biometrics, also has the potential to allow users to control their own data, deciding how much of it to share. It is also conceivable that unbanked refugees might rely on the blockchain to be issued an ID soContinue reading “Blockchain Can Bring the Unbanked into the Global Economy | Bank Think”