Mastercard just outlined its digital ID push
Where payments meet digital ID.
At the Authenticate 2022 event, Mastercard SVP of Digital Identity Sarah Clark detailed the company’s digital ID plans. Clark detailed Mastercard’s plans for a digital ID network at a presentation on “Use of FIDO in a […]
IMF Chief says Central Bank Digital Currency should be used alongside Social Credit System to control what people can and cannot buy
The deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently explained how Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) can be programmed to determine what people are allowed to buy and insisted they should be used alongside a China-style Social Credit Score system.
Unlike cryptocurrency, which is private, Central Bank Digital […]
AGs Investigating U.S. Banks For Using ESG To ‘Starve’ Companies Of Capital
Led by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, 19 state attorneys general announced an investigation of six major banks on Wednesday, probing their involvement with a U.N. alliance dedicated to advancing the ESG (environmental, social, and governance) agenda. [bold, links added]
The investigative demands were served to Citigroup, Bank of America, […]
Germany slaps messaging app Telegram with $5 million fine
Germany has announced that it is issuing fines of 5.125 million euros ($5 million) against the operators of the messagging app Telegram for failing to comply with German law
Germany announced Monday that it is issuing fines of 5.125 million […]
The Great Reset: Klaus Schwab’s WEF has plans to implement a ‘Carbon Allowance’ that will restrict what you do, buy and eat
In his 2020 book “THE DENIAL” journalist Ross Clark describes a dystopian future in which everything we buy or do has a carbon (CO2) value and each household or individual has a carbon allowance which is the maximum amount of CO2 they are allowed to use each month.
No household […]
EU Commission wants to allow real-time biometric identification surveillance
EU’s proposed Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act, drafted by the European Commission, was under the spotlight for the first time last week in a “political” debate in the European Parliament (EP) last week.
And reports say that this debate got heated over issues […]
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau considers investigating PayPal over fining people for legal speech
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) director Rohit Chopra said he was considering investigating PayPal over a now-retracted update to the user agreement that said users would be fined $2,500 for spreading misinformation.
“I’ve never actually never heard […]
PayPal Appears To Be Desperately Offering Bribes Of $15 To Stop Droves Of People Cancelling Accounts
PayPal is reportedly offering account holders $15 to prevent them closing their accounts after the platform shamefully threatened to steal their money if they express the ‘wrong’ opinion.
PayPal announced that it would reserve the right to take up to $2500 from […]
PayPal, Bail-Ins and the Necessity for Trustless Money
When I first heard about Paypal’s plan to deduct $2,500 from user accounts for each instance where “in Paypal’s sole discretion”, the account holder had transmitted “misinformation”, I all but took a […]