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The concept of sustainability is linked to taking care of all life on Earth. Since 1948, how we take care of ourselves as the human race has been enshrined in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. So to me, digital sustainability means being equally able to protect fundamental human rights in the digital world as we are in the physical world. Therefore, digital sustainability is essential for the future of humankind, democracy and life in general.

From Stand up for your customers’ privacy and protect their data rather than harvesting it | INNOPAY:

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Since 1948, how we take care of ourselves as the human race has been enshrined in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. So to me, digital sustainability means being equally able to protect fundamental human rights in the digital world as we are in the physical world. Therefore, digital sustainability is essential for the future of humankind, democracy and life in general.

From Stand up for your customers’ privacy and protect their data rather than harvesting it | INNOPAY:

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In South Florida, it’s pretty simple to draw a line from Russian cybercrime to US street gang killings and frauds. It’s become a real epidemic. “Fraud is the new dope,” said Armando Aguilar, criminal investigations chief at the Miami Police Department. “Fraud committed by gang members is a nationwide problem, but as with all things fraud, Miami is at the forefront.”

From Forget guns and drugs, identity theft is the latest go-to crime for Miami street gangs – SCREENSHOT:

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What’s changed since then, however, is what gangs are fighting over—guns and drugs are out, and rivals are now trying to outdo each other when it comes to performing identity theft.

From Forget guns and drugs, identity theft is the latest go-to crime for Miami street gangs – SCREENSHOT:

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Coinbase made a business decision to gain maximum market share by listing as many tokens as possible in the United States, according to Preston Byrne, partner at New York law firm Anderson Kill.

More than 150 cryptocurrencies are available to US traders, so when Coinbase says it doesn’t list any securities on its platform, it may simply be playing cute with its language, Byrne alluded.

“A token isn’t a security. It’s an investment contract, which is regulated by the Securities Act in exactly the same manner as securities,” Byrne explained.

From Coinbase Defends Listing Process, Despite SEC Pressure – Blockworks:

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People have grown so accustomed to renting from the centralized services of web2 that the idea of actually owning things — digital objects you can sell, trade, or take elsewhere — often strikes people as odd. But the digital world ought to obey the same logic as the physical world: when you buy something, you own it. It’s yours. Just as courts of law uphold these rights in the physical world, so should code enforce it online. It just so happens that true digital property rights weren’t possible before the advent of cryptography, blockchain technology, and related innovations such as NFTs. Put simply, metaverses turn digital serfs into homesteaders.

From 7 Essential Ingredients of a Metaverse | Future:

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While advocates of an approach known as self-sovereign identity (SSI) make claims for its prioritisation of user security, privacy, individual autonomy and self-empowerment (Giannopoulou & Wang 2021), it is fundamentally a mutation carrying computer science’s false premise further into community.

From Human identity: the number one challenge in computer science:

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To be clear, online abuse is disgusting, but we must ensure that the medicine is not worse than the malady.

From Human identity: the number one challenge in computer science:

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Identity, in what you might call a natural sense, is reciprocally defining and co-constitutive with relationships and information exchange (Wheatley & Kellner-Rogers 1996, 1998). Identities are immanent in contextual relationships, and relationships are immanent in information exchange. A person is a person through other persons (Birhane 2017).

From Human identity: the number one challenge in computer science:

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When a person makes a payment to another person’s or business’s PayID, they are shown the name of that person or business before making the payment.

The research findings coincide with a campaign developed by the Australian Banking Association (ABA) that highlights how PayID can help businesses avoid scammers who imitate them in a bid to redirect customer payments into their own account.

The campaign follows a report from the ACCC highlighting Australian consumers and businesses had lost $227 million to payment redirection scams during 2021.

From PayID fights fraud and mistaken payments – NPPA:

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