An early heads-up. The Privacy Foundation at the University of
Denver Sturm College of Law,
https://www.law.du.edu/privacy-foundation
Spring Seminar: Friday, April 26, 2019: “Current California
Privacy Legislation” More details as they become available.
Biometrics and other things, AI uses them all.
To help
replace the CAC card, Pentagon enlists AI startup
Brooklyn-based artificial intelligence startup
(TWOSENSE.AI) is working with the Department of Defense to replace
the CAC card.
… The contract … will focus on
next-generation identity verification by authenticating users “by
their behavior, such as how they walk, type, carry their device, or
interact with the screen,” TWOSENSE.AI said in a release
(Related) To use digital ID you first must have
digital hardware.
The Case
For and Against Digital ID
At this year’s Davos summit in Switzerland, the
topic of digital ID made headlines. According to a new research
study presented at the World Economic Forum in Davos, developing
economies that adopt digital ID systems (rather than paper-based ID
systems) have the potential to grow their annual GDP by up to 13
percent by the year 2030. The big caveat, however, is that any form
of new digital ID system is going to raise questions about personal
privacy.
… In Estonia, digital ID cards are used for
just about everything official – including voting, signing
documents and submitting tax claims. In fact, digital ID has helped
to streamline the business system so much that Estonian government
officials now claim that the average individual saves 5 business days
each year, simply due to productivity gains. In terms of economic
growth, that’s good for an additional two percentage points of GDP
growth each year.
Apparently it is worth the time and effort spent.
Silly me, I thought the idea was to skip all that effort.
Ray Stern reports:
Arizona police have increasingly been digging into online records to find out who’s responsible for photo-enforcement tickets.
Cops in several cities that use speed or red-light cameras tell Phoenix New Times they’ve been doing extra research to find the people in violation photos, beyond simply sending notices asking a car’s registered owner to rat out the offending driver.
Read more on New
Times.
The Marketing Department wanted it that way.
(Notice that they are not changing the prices.)
Target
makes changes to app after report finds it displayed higher prices
inside stores
Target has openly admitted that prices can be
different in-store versus online, but there can also be a price
difference within the Target app depending on where you use it.
… A Target spokesperson said each product will
now have a disclaimer below the price to indicate if the price will
be valid in store or at Target.com.
If you see a lower price in the app, take a
screengrab and Target will match the price. You should also turn off
the location setting, that way the app won’t know where you are
when shopping.
Merging for the architecture.
Cramer:
What Wall Street doesn't get about the SunTrust-BB&T merger
The biggest
banking deal since the financial crisis has more to do with
technology than any traditional bank metric, CNBC's Jim
Cramer said Friday of BB&T's
pivotal $66 billion commitment to buy rival SunTrust
Banks.
"To me, this BB&T merger of equals with
SunTrust is about keeping up with the Joneses — in this case,
keeping up with the Wells
Fargos, the J.P.
Morgans and especially the Bank
of Americas," he told investors. "These financial
titans can spend fortunes to build out terrific cloud-based customer
relations platforms that have done a phenomenal job of adding new
clients. On their own, neither SunTrust nor BB&T can really
compete with the big boys when it comes to technology."
… "I think technology — specifically,
the need for customer relations management software — is a crucial
part of what drove this deal," Cramer argued, pointing to what
he saw as Bank
of America's lead in the digital banking arena.
In its most
recent quarter, Bank of America reported 36 million active
digital banking users, versus 31 million three years ago. The bank
also said that 77 percent of its consumer deposits were digital, up
from 67 percent three years ago.
"Right now, Bank of America is the king of
mobile. They have an incredible app, and they have Salesforce
to help them figure out what their customers want and when they want
it, and they integrate it together," Cramer explained.
Perspective. Busier than I thought.
Uber’s
JUMP bikes are seeing high utilization rates
In the past year,
more than 63,000 people took 625,000 rides on JUMP bikes in San
Francisco, JUMP announced today. Each JUMP bike in San Francisco saw
an average of seven rides per bike per day compared to the
docked-bike industry average of one to two per day.
… On an industry-wide basis, docked
systems see an average of one to two rides per bike per day,
according to 2017 data from the National Association of City
Transportation Officials.
Meanwhile, JUMP rides have continued to decrease
the number of Uber
rides. In July, Uber reported finding the number of car trips
decreasing by 10 percent while trip frequency of JUMP + Uber
increased by 15 percent.
The more the merrier.
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