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The Australian House of Representatives Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs meanwhile suggested the DTA come up with “minimum requirements for privacy, safety, security, data handling, usability, accessibility, and auditing of age-verification providers” and use the digital ID solution to implement plans to verify age for pornographic content.

From Australia to roll out digital IDs’ biometric features for public testing in 2020 | Biometric Update:

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As the global reserve currency, U.S. dollars are the most widely distributed notes in the world with around $1.75 trillion worth of cash in circulation globally, according to the Fed. Much that is circulated overseas, particularly in Asia where the dollar is often stronger than local currencies.

From Fed quarantines U.S. dollars repatriated from Asia on coronavirus caution – Reuters:

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One study finds that the productivity slowdown has been relatively widespread, while another has suggested that it was confined largely to two sectors: finance and manufacturing.

From If the UK is high tech, why is productivity growth slow? Economists weigh in | LSE Business Review:

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It is a bit of a puzzle. Why are financial services, which ought to be revolutionised by bots and blockchains, so unproductive? Or, to rephrase, why does the cost of financial intermediation in our economy appear insensitive to technological advancement?

Actually, it’s not that much of a paradox.

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China also uses electronic records of medicine purchases to identify sick individuals who may have attempted to flee quarantine.

From China suppressed Covid-19 with AI and big data – Asia Times:

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Chinese government algorithms can estimate the probability that a given neighborhood or even an individual has exposure to Covid-19 by matching the location of smartphones to known locations of infected individuals or groups. The authorities use this information to use limited medical resources more efficiently by, for example, directing tests for the virus to high-risk subjects identified by the artificial intelligence algorithm.

From China suppressed Covid-19 with AI and big data – Asia Times:

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China used locational and other data from hundreds of millions of smartphones to contain the spread of Covid-19, according to Chinese sources familiar with the program.

From China suppressed Covid-19 with AI and big data – Asia Times:

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Yinyin and Jiadong are accused by the DoJ of helping to launder about $100 million. Among their techniques, they converted about $1.4 million of Bitcoin into prepaid Apple iTunes gift cards. They are charged with money laundering conspiracy and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business.

From US charges Chinese nationals with helping North Korea launder stole…:

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A civil forfeiture complaint says that after stealing the money, the hackers laundered it through hundreds of automated cryptocurrency transactions designed to prevent authorities tracing it. They used doctored photos and fake IDs to get past KYC controls.

From US charges Chinese nationals with helping North Korea launder stole…:

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“We would expect a nested series of new entities (national and local Health Data Trusts) to be charged with maximising the public benefit from health data while respecting privacy and consent, for example around linking patient records, diagnoses, genomic and socio-economic and behavioural data.”

From “The new ecosystem of trust: how data trusts, collaboratives and coops can help govern data for the maximum public benefit | Nesta”.

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One study finds that the productivity slowdown has been relatively widespread, while another has suggested that it was confined largely to two sectors: finance and manufacturing.

From If the UK is high tech, why is productivity growth slow? Economists weigh in | LSE Business Review:

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