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xxx A digital identity is a collection of features and characteristics associated with a uniquely identifiable individual — stored and authenticated in the digital sphere — and used for transactions, interactions, and representations online. From The Digital Identity: What It Is, How It's Created, and How to Benefit from It . xxx

xxx Banga said “we are making good progress” on SRC and testing the system with card issuers and merchants. “We are actively working on Masterpass upgrades to SRC with partners like Tickets.com, Expedia Group, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Norwegian Cruise Lines, and we expect to launch in the United States in the next few months,” he said. From Mastercard’s Transaction Volume Jumps 18%; Secure Remote Commerce and Contactless Payments Gain – Digital Transactions . xxx

xxx "In the case of Capital One, the hacker largely tapped the personal information of consumers and small businesses that applied for credit card products between 2005 and 2019, collecting names, addresses and phone numbers, self-reported income, credit scores and payment history, among other personal information. About 1.1m Social Security Numbers and 80,000 linked bank account numbers were also accessed, Capital One said." From "Capital One reports massive data breach after hacking | Financial Times" . xxx

xxx "Outside the financial sector, I particularly enjoyed the keynote on the third day from Colleen Manaher from the US Customs and Border Control. She was talking about the use of biometrics and spent some of the time talking about the specific use of biometrics in airports as an interesting example of how to use biometric technologies for security but at the same time deliver convenience into the mass market. The point of her talk, was partnerships around identity. In this case, she was talking about quite complex public-private partnerships in travel. The investments made in biometrics to allow paperless travel have obvious benefits in terms of security but, as we have found in our other work about the cross-sector exploitation of digital identity, intelligent use of these new capabilities can also transform the customer experience. The same biometric system that scans your passport picture on entry to the airport and then checks you in for your flight can also be used to di...

xxx "Facial recognition technology used by London’s Metropolitan Police incorrectly identified members of the public in 96 per cent of matches made between 2016 and 2018." From "Met police's facial recognition technology '96% inaccurate' - inews.co.uk" . xxx

xxx "First, as we saw above, it’s easy to attain high confidence in the incorrect classification of an adversarial example — recall that in the first ‘panda’ example we looked at, the network is less sure of an actual image looking like a panda (57.7%) than our adversarial example on the right looking like a gibbon (99.3%). Another intriguing point is how imperceptibly little noise we needed to add to fool the system — after all, clearly, the added noise is not enough to fool us, the humans." From "Breaking neural networks with adversarial attacks - Towards Data Science" . xxx

xxx "Switch a few pixels here or there, or add a little noise to what is actually an image of, say, a gray tabby cat, and Google's Tensorflow-powered open-source Inception model will think it’s a bowl of guacamole. This is not a hypothetical example: it's something the MIT students, working together as an independent team dubbed LabSix, claim they have achieved." From "How we fooled Google's AI into thinking a 3D-printed turtle was a gun: MIT bods talk to El Reg • The Register" . xxx