Saturday, February 09, 2019

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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