Biden Is Paving The Way For A Federally Owned Digital Currency Via Executive Order.

President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order on Thursday that would look into the possibility of creating a digital currency issued by the US Central Bank (CBDC). Unlike cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, which are not controlled by a single body, this is a digital currency that would be issued by a central bank like the Federal Reserve. The executive order also calls for more research to be conducted in the coming months, as well as policy suggestions from the Treasury Department and other government agencies on how to manage the rapidly growing digital currency sector. According to a White House statement, “the United States must continue technological leadership in this fast emerging field, promoting innovation while minimizing risks for consumers, businesses, the broader financial system, and the climate.” In November, the market capitalization of cryptocurrencies surpassed $3 trillion.…

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Private Data Leaks Occurring All Over The Internet According To A Recent University Study.

According to a May 12 article in Fortune, researchers from KU Leuven, Radboud University, and the University of Lausanne conducted a study and discovered that tens of thousands of websites captured—without permission—every word typed into an online form, even if users left the site without submitting their information. “Given its scope, intrusiveness, and unexpected consequences,” the study’s authors said, “the privacy problem we analyze warrants additional attention from browser makers, privacy tool developers, and data protection organizations.” While typing out their email address on a website, establishing an account, purchasing a ticket, or subscribing to a newsletter, many people were mistakenly made to believe that their personal data was safe. According to Fortune, the combined university research looked at over 100,000 websites. The study teams constructed fictitious software profiles that imitated a real user who visited hundreds of websites and…

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Canadian Mounted Police Are Getting Away With Misusing AI powered Facial Recognition Technology.

The federal government is seeking a court to deny a Quebec photographer’s request for certification of a class-action lawsuit over the RCMP’s use of a controversial facial-recognition program, which might affect millions of people. Government attorneys argue in a filing to the Federal Court that Ha Vi Doan cannot claim “damage of any type” as a result of the national police force’s contacts with Clearview AI. Doan’s planned class-action complaint seeks unspecified damages on behalf of herself and other Canadians whose images and information were allegedly included in a vast database collected by Clearview AI and utilized by the Mounties under license. Clearview AI’s technology has drawn a lot of attention since it involves gathering large quantities of photographs from diverse sources with the goal of assisting police forces, financial organizations, and other clients in identifying people from photos. The…

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China Wants Your DNA Sequencing Data. They May Already Have it.

According to Edward You, the US national counterintelligence officer for Emerging and Disruptive Technologies, China is “developing the world’s largest bio database.” “It’s not something you can change like a pin code once they have access to your genetic data.” The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is compiling a large database of medical, health, and genetic information from people all over the world, including Americans, in order to dominate the bioeconomy. Private firms are enlisted by the CCP to assist in the collection of genetic data, which may then be merged with top military supercomputing capabilities to uncover genetic flaws in a population. Bioweapons that feed on these flaws can then be designed. Chinese scientists have been pursuing research in the areas of brain science, gene editing, and the construction of artificial genomes as part of Beijing’s military-civil fusion program. Similar study…

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Crysler Announces Ambitions to Go All Electric By 2028. Software is Going to be Everywhere.

Chrysler has announced ambitions to go totally electric by 2028, with the first electric vehicle expected to hit the market in 2025. According to The Associated Press, Chrysler announced the plans alongside a new AI-enabled vehicle system powered by a battery that the company claims can drive 350 to 400 miles on a single charge. Chrysler is part of Stellantis, a European automaker that revealed last month a new goal to integrate AI-enabled software into millions of vehicles across its 14 brands. By 2030, Stellantis might earn $22.6 billion in annual income as a result of this. This is all part of the push between automakers to deliver more fully electric and hybrid vehicles with more autonomous driving capabilities. Overall, this would signal a shift away from gasoline-powered engines in automobiles. Chrysler, as one of Stellantis’ primary American brands, will…

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The Technological Surveillance that Led to Persecution in China.

Prior to the Chinese police hanging high-powered surveillance cameras and locking up ethnic minorities by the hundreds of thousands in China’s western region of Xinjiang, China’s hackers went to work building malware. The Chinese hacking campaign, which researchers at Lookout — the San Francisco mobile security firm — had started as early as 2013 and continues to this day, was part of a broad and incredibly illusive effort to pull in data from the devices that know their people best: their phones. Lookout found links between eight types of malicious software (some previously known, others not) that explain how groups connected to China’s government surveilled Android phones used by Xinjiang’s largely Muslim Uighur population on a scale far larger than had been realized before. The timeline suggests the hacking campaign was an early cornerstone in China’s Uighur surveillance efforts that would later extend to collecting blood samples, voice prints, facial…

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