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Berto Jongman: Face Recognition — No Place to Hide Plus Graphic of Most Hyped Information Technologies 2000-2008

Advanced Cyber/IO, IO Impotency

The Business of Your Face

Facial recognition software is a powerful technology that poses serious threats to civil liberties. It’s also a booming business.

Hype cycle link & graphic below the fold.

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Stephen E. Arnold: Deep Video Fakes Getting Easier, Better

Advanced Cyber/IO, IO Impotency
Stephen E. Arnold

Deep Video Fakes: Getting Easier and Better, Much Better

You may have seen one of the news stories explaining that unwanted artifacts can be removed from video. The magic is one of the features of Adobe After Effects, an application which requires some effort to learn. “Adobe Creative Cloud Updates – New Features for Video Post Production” stated:

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Kaliya “Identity Woman” Young et al: A Comprehensive Guide to Self Sovereign Identity

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Digital identity is an infrastructure necessary to do most everything on the Internet. And while there have been many solutions through the years, it remains a problem. Companies own the digital identities of the people that use their services, centralized databases are a security risk for cyberattacks, and users have little to no control of how their data is secured.

Self Sovereign Identity technologies give individuals and companies the ability to control and manage their own digital identifiers. This technology is gaining momentum as it solves previously unsolvable challenges. With the emergence of SSI open standards, a new layer of the internet emerges for the identity of people and organizations. SSI represents a new paradigm — it changes the identity game completely.

Now available in Kindle online form (with active links) for $49.99. This report was previously limited to clients paying $10,000.  It remains the single best overview of where we need to go to create Web 3.0.

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Berto Jongman: John Harris on Global Battle for the Internet – Just Starting

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Berto Jongman

The global battle for the internet is just starting

Two competing visions of our digital future have emerged from China and Silicon Valley. But are they really so different?

On one side sits the system used in China, which produces vast amounts of personal data and blurs into a huge apparatus of state surveillance and censorship. This model is centred on two online behemoths, whose dominance partly comes down to the fact that Chinese consumerism is all about paying via your smartphone, rather than an old-fashioned plastic card. There’s the e-commerce conglomerate Alibaba, and Tencent, which owns WeChat, the platform used by more than 1 billion people every day. It does so many things – payments, social networking, messaging, travel booking, gaming – that participating in society without it seems all but impossible.

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