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A grandma in Holland has been ordered to remove pictures of her grandchildren from Facebook under a data protection law

From Dutch court orders grandma to remove pictures of her grandchildren from Facebook under GDPR – Business Insider:

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Nine existing computers have been taken over by the National Data Processing Service: six are in London and one each in Edinburgh, Derby and Portsmouth. The computers are two Elliott 405, six English Electric LEO 326 and one RCA Spectra 70/45. The Spectra is on loan from English Electric pending supply of their own 4/70.

From Computers (Hansard, 25 April 1968):

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This year, the NSW government wants to introduce a digital alternative for physical photo cards, Customer Service Minister Victor Dominello said on social media, according to iTnews.
“I will digitize the NSW Photo Card this year – I will keep you posted,” Dominello wrote on LinkedIn

From Australia myGovID biometrics pilot ends, state considers offering digital version of photo card | Biometric Update:

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Due to the popular use of e-payment in China, Chinese merchants are gradually giving up cash and card payments. But for foreign tourists, who are excluded in most cases from the digital payment methods, due to the need to have a Chinese bank account and a Chinese phone number, the inability of making e-payments in China has become one of the biggest pain points for them.

Although last year Alipay and WeChat Pay have successively launched solutions for this issue, but these solutions are still not very convenient or popular yet.

From DCEP: New World Currency?:

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The director of the digital currency research institute of the central bank, Mu Changchun indicated before that users just need to download and register on an app implementing DCEP, no need to go to any commercial banks to signup and  complete “real-name” registration.

On the app, users can just enter their nicknames and passwords to become a category 4 user that enables daily micro-payments. But if users need to use the services from the wallet above category 2, users would need to input more information such as real name, ID card number or bank accounts.

From DCEP: New World Currency?:

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The new Mobile Driver License (mDL) can be used to make customer interactions more efficient and accurate. Understand how mDL interactions work using the ISO/IEC 18013–5 Standard…

From The New Mobile Driver Licenses — How to Use ISO 18013–5:

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Sometimes, though, Google is tricked into lying by people who want to push falsehoods onto the rest of us. By systematically exploring Google’s search-ranking system (a system bathed in secrecy and subjected to constant analysis by the Search Engine Optimization industry), bad actors can and do change the top results on Google, tricking the system into returning misinformation (and sometimes, it’s just a stupid mistake).

This can be a very effective means of shifting our discourse.

From How Big Tech Monopolies Distort Our Public Discourse | Electronic Frontier Foundation:

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The popular pub chain announced its safety plans for 875 pubs last week. Now, more details have surfaced.

It believes it has an ingenius way to minimise the contamination risk between staff and customers.

The detailed guidance states: “Staff will hand over all drinks holding the base of the glass and when ordered by the app they will be delivered to the table on a tray and placed on the table using the base of the glass.”

From How Wetherspoon staff can hand you your pint to minimise cross contamination | News and Star:

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The rise of monolithic platforms with hundreds of millions (or even billions) of users means that a substantial portion of our public discourse is conducted under the shadow of moderation policies that are not—and cannot— be complete or well-administered.

From How Big Tech Monopolies Distort Our Public Discourse | Electronic Frontier Foundation:

These are not newspapers, not TV channels, not the public squares of our forefathers. They are something new, and they demand an new regulatory framework.

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Gareth Shaw, from consumer organisation Which?, said: “With the existing cash system being pushed closer to the edge of collapse by the coronavirus outbreak, it is clear that new solutions are desperately needed to secure people’s access and ability to pay with cash, which millions of people still rely on as their main form of payment.”

From New trials planned for cash-stricken communities – BBC News:

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