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Much of the restaurant industry’s investments in in-store tech have gone toward contactless payment solutions through QR codes or tableside ordering technology to minimize customer contact with restaurant workers
From How restaurants are bringing tech to the table in 2021 | Restaurant Dive:
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While the legal standard is allegedly negligence (“reasonable surveillance”), regulators routinely employ 20/20 hindsight to second-guess broker due diligence of their clients after the fact, effectively imposing strict liability.
From Why Brokers Had to Restrain Trading in GameStop Shares – WSJ.
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Despite its lofty rhetoric, the main feat that cryptocurrency has accomplished over the past decade is to make a select few exorbitantly rich. Take Bitcoin, for example. While there are roughly 30 million people with Bitcoin addresses, 2.43% of those people own almost 95% of the currency’s total value.
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Another wearable device, a ski glove wallet has been experimented on Beijing Daxing subway. After charging their_ wearable at a subway ticket terminal using e-CNY, users can swipe their way through a special NFC gate.
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Rosemary Rogers, a former chief of staff to ex-NAB CEO Andrew Thorburn, has been jailed for eight years for taking kickbacks to the value of $5.4 million in return for fraudulently approving false and inflated invoices from a supplier to the bank.
New South Wales police initiated a probe in April 2019 following allegations by a whistleblower of corrupt invoice payments of up to $40 million made to executive events firm Human Group, a long-term supplier to the bank, that were approved by Rogers.
In return Rogers received a substantial payback which was spent on a “dream home” in Williamstown, a brand new BMW, a boat, a caravan, home renovations and lavish family holidays in exotic overseas destinations.
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For the last decade or so, cases like this have been written off as just what happens in the internet era. If you crossed paths with someone who tried to destroy you online, for whatever reason, you were deemed collateral damage of our modern age. People were told, basically, to shrug it off.
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First, at least 14 Twitter accounts posing as telecommunications experts, writers and academics shared articles by Mr. Vermulst and many others attacking draft Belgium legislation that would limit “high risk” vendors like Huawei from building the country’s 5G system, according to Graphika, a research firm that studies misinformation and fake social media accounts. The pro-Huawei accounts used computer-generated profile pictures, a telltale sign of inauthentic activity.
Next, Huawei officials retweeted the fake accounts, giving the articles even wider reach to policymakers, journalists and business leaders.
From Inside a Pro-Huawei Influence Campaign – The New York Times:
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While Upham fondly referred to his inventory as “paper bullets,” he wasn’t being at all surreptitious about his fraud. In addition to advertising them as an amusement, he labeled each note with his name and mailing address. Of course, if people were to tear off portions identifying the bills as fakes, leaving a perfectly serviceable “bank” note, that wasn’t his fault.
From The Counterfeiter Who Sank the Confederacy | Mental Floss:
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Formation of encapsulated identity personas or roles are necessary, so people are able to trust in security. Who someone trusts is partially context dependent: e.g. trust in banks as ID provider only in the context of payments, so here the encapsulated Payment Identity Persona should apply.
From (1) Digital Identity & E-ID: What HUMANS Need And Want | LinkedIn:
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British Airways has announced a new trial of the Verifly health passport app, allowing customers to verify Covid-19 test certificates before they leave home for their flights.
From British Airways to trial Verifly digital health passport – Business Traveller:
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