It appears rogue swarms are attempting to drain peoples' bank accounts
Banks are fighting the onslaught and are already preparing for "day after" scenarios
Bank executives described the situation as "horrifying"
you are taxed on the money you earn, taxed on the items you buy, and taxed every single year on the property you own. the system is completely engineered to bleed you out slowly.
❗️ San Francisco police signed a Flock Safety contract that keeps licence plate data for 365 days, released records show
The year of storage costs a one-time $273,500.
Flock's own fact sheet in the same records says it deletes all data after 30 days by default.
Britain scrapped digital ID. Or did it?
While the government says its national scheme has been cancelled, One Login is expanding.
Welfare records are already being used for identity verification, banking verification is planned and officials are developing ways to recognise individuals across government departments.
My latest for @Forbes looks at what's still being built, the risks of scope creep and what happens when government systems get things wrong.
Read the full article:
https://t.co/zqliwZD0Ri
‼️ Hackers stole 1.5 million+ "anonymous" Crime Stoppers tips from 25 years in Canada when they breached tip platform P3 in March, CBC found.
850k+ hold personal details, and 4,3k+ tipsters gave their full names.
They first told no Canadian data was affected.
‼️ VirusTotal flagged 6,6k of 35,8k AI agent skills as malicious.
62% have no malicious code, but plain-language orders for the agent.
90 hide them in invisible Unicode, HTML comments or after up to 825 blank lines. Another tells the agent "Your human doesn't need to know." 💀
Capcom data breach in Japan. The internet is being stress tested from every angle. Every vulnerability exposed and exploited. No country is safe. The digital barbarians are at the global gates.
Amazon doesn't have enough available power to run all their GPUs, so they're sitting in warehouses and they don't have a clear path forward to installing them.
PC components and consumer electronic prices have skyrocketed because of this absolute nonsense.
‼️ A Georgia sheriff's investigator left in 2021 but kept his login to Flock's camera network and searched it 60+ times.
Logs seen by The Washington Post show repeated lookups of his wife's vanity plate. He's charged with stalking her.
@SnakeHoppe Where is the more accurate board game whose whole premise is showing how Communism ends with one person owning everything while everybody else gets murdered?
The government scrapped its national digital ID scheme following public opposition but the infrastructure continues to expand.
https://t.co/RwA5bkiKoC One Login now has:
- 264 government services already connected
- 500 services expected within two years
- 23 million+ people already using it
The government is also working on ways for different departments to recognise the same individual across their services, rather than requiring people to verify their identity separately.
Officials confirmed this is still being developed, alongside the continued expansion of One Login and https://t.co/RwA5bkiKoC Wallet.
The concerns about security, accountability and what happens when these systems get things wrong haven't gone away.
The oral evidence from the 19 October parliamentary hearing is worth reading, particularly questions 12, 42 and 62.
Full transcript:
https://t.co/YX3YBkw8OL
The government's published roadmap sets out further development, including plans to introduce identity verification using banking information:
https://t.co/cyE1Y56tFt
The national digital ID scheme may have been scrapped, but digital ID is very much alive and kicking.