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xxx “A repeat of the failed attempt to roll out the Australia Card threatens to follow Coalition efforts to create digital IDs for web-users, unless the government makes changes protecting privacy, a defence think tank warns in a new report.” From “Govpass on brink of becoming the next Australia Card debacle: report”. xxx

xxx Age verification (AV) regulations presented to parliament by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) last week do not include websites on which less than a third of content is pornographic material and where it is provided free of charge. From Millions of porn videos will not be blocked by UK online ageContinue reading “The will of the peephole”

xxx More startling is that the demand for $100 bills has exceeded that for all other denominations, growing at an annual rate of about 8 percent since 1995, double that of most other notes. In 2017, the $100 bill passed the $1 denomination as the most widely circulated Federal Reserve note. From Cashless society notContinue reading “Cashless society not here yet, with $100 gaining | Coin World”

I notice that Facebook has been hacked. Apparently, some 30 million people had their phone numbers and personal details exposed in a “major cyber attack” on the social network in September. Around half of them had their usernames, gender, language, relationship status, religion, hometown, city, birthday, device types used to access Facebook, education, work, theContinue reading “Facebook can do it, why can’t Barclays”

xxx Work by Grant Thornton has been called into question after bosses at Patisserie discovered a £28.8million black hole in the accounts, an unpaid tax bill and two ‘secret’ overdrafts totalling nearly £10million. The auditor has worked for the company since 2006 and most recently signed off the books for the year to September 30,Continue reading “Auditors face probe over Patisserie Valerie crisis following discovery of £28.8m black hole | Daily Mail Online”

xxx In the UK, at more than £80 billion ($104 billion), the value of notes and coins in circulation is in real terms one-third higher than in 2007, when the UK got its first contactless payment cards. From What is driving the drop in UK cash volumes? – Central Banking. xxx

xxx I don’t think there are many people left in government who understand digital identity.” From Commercial concerns push two IDPs away from Verify as it heads towards private sector delivery – Government Computing Network. To be honest, there weren’t that many to begin with.

xxx “Of these, 15m had their names, phone numbers and email addresses accessed. An additional 14m also had usernames, gender, language, relationship status, religion, hometown, city, birthday, device types used to access Facebook, education, work, the last 10 places they checked into or were tagged in, website, people or Pages they follow, and the 15Continue reading “Facebook warns 30m users exposed in cyber attack – how to check if you were affected”

xxx “Zelle P2P Volume Grew To $28 Billion In Q2, Against Venmo’s $14 Billion” From “Venmo, Zelle Book Q2 Growth, Good Signs for P2P | PYMNTS.com”. xxx

xxx “When Berners-Lee and his team were building the world wide web and designing HTTP and HTMP standards, they included error codes such as ‘500: internal server error’, or ‘404: page not found’. In the early 90s, they were trying to realise Licklider’s vision and setting out the rules for how we were all goingContinue reading “The untold story of Stripe, the secretive $20bn startup driving Apple, Amazon and Facebook | WIRED UK”