After years of research, Robert Epstein, a Harvard-trained psychologist, found Google uses manipulative and deceptive practices that can sway your perceptions and behaviors, including how you vote in presidential elections.
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Clearview AI was fined for using internet-sourced images of UK residents in its database – but not before police forces used its service
Last week, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) slapped a £7.5m fine on a smallish tech company called Clearview AI for “using images of people in the UK, and […]
Mastercard recently launched a program for retailers to offer biometric payment methods, like facial recognition and fingerprint scanning. At the checkout, users will be forced to authenticate their payment by showing their face or the palm of […]
The WHO recently announced plans for an international pandemic treaty tied to a digital passport and digital ID system. Meeting in December 2021 in a special session for only the second time since the WHO’s founding in 1948, the Health Assembly of the WHO […]
Facial recognition company Clearview AI has been fined more than £7.5m by the UK’s privacy watchdog and told to delete the data of UK residents.
The company gathers images from the internet to create a global facial recognition database.
Residents in New South Wales are in line for a whole-of-government Digital ID that will let them connect their biometric details for access to services.
Anew report from the Bank of International Settlements estimates that up to 90% of national central banks are at least in the planning stages for launching a central bank digital currency (CBDC):
Nine out […]
The World Trade Organization (WTO) and World Economic Forum (WEF) recently published a report that encourages the use of a global digital identity program for persons and objects. The report centers on global trade but is the first step […]
Rabobank now links your spending to carbon emissions
Since Friday, Rabobank customers can see how much CO2 they emit based on their spending in the bank’s app. For example, the Dutch bank wants to raise awareness of climate change. But it’s quite complicated to measure something like that very precisely […]
