Category: Cashless Transactions – Mark of the Beast

Amazon, Google, AI and us: Are we too close for comfort? Beyond facial recognition, we’re giving smart devices and platforms our intimate biometric details. The ‘one-two’ punch of facial and hand / fingerprint scanning.

Amazon, Google, AI and us: Are we too close for comfort? Beyond facial recognition, we’re giving smart devices and platforms our intimate biometric details. BY BRIAN BENNETT APRIL 4, 2019 5:00 AM PDT Computers aren’t just getting smarter, they’re studying us more closely too. Whether it’s in the name of […]

Some ruinations on decentralization of identifications. More proof of the coming ‘mark, number, name’ of a controlling entity in the world’s economy. Ah, the economy of tomorrow and the future. Coming at you at light speed, in the ‘twinkling of an eye.’

Some ruminations on decentralization of identifications Tech Crunch. 04/07/2019 It’s tax season, which has me thinking about one of decentralized technology’s holy grails: self-sovereign identities. It’s a stirring vision, of a world in which control over our driver’s licenses, passports, birth certificates, social security numbers — the table […]

MOVING TOWARD A “CASHLESS” ECONOMY in India and China and Saudi Arabia. Mbs, Jinping and Modi are driving the bus. 5G Network, Biometric Scanning for Identification, Verification and Approval, Cash-less / Digital Transactions. All that is left is a special ‘mark-number-name’ to authorize transactions. The question is, whose ‘mark, number or name’? Our redemption draweith nigh!!! There is only one obvious choice.

MOVING TOWARD A “CASHLESS” ECONOMY Digital India campaign encourages increased financial access, engagement, and prosperity. India is a nation of 1.3 billion people, with a median age of 27.6 years old. This massive, youthful population is driving India’s emergence as a regional and global power. Economic growth averaged […]

Facial recognition can drive business goals, but where do we draw the line? By the time someone has the power to approve, control and allow your purchase? Then it’s too late.

Facial recognition can drive business goals, but where do we draw the line? Hewlett Packard Enterprise. HPEnext.com. February 25, 2019 Some people worry that facial recognition technology undermines privacy, but there is a fundamental difference between using the technology to monitor shopping habits and using it to save […]

Biometric authentication: From speeding travel to providing ID for the marginalized. The combination of different biometrics technologies under one authentication instance, referred to as multimodal biometrics, offers a great way to enhance accuracy and security.” That’s a fancy way of saying biometric scanning will involve scanning your face and hand. Wow! Where have I heard that before!? When? let me guess. 2020! There is that date again. PLEASE READ.

Biometric authentication: From speeding travel to providing ID for the marginalized. The combination of different biometrics technologies under one authentication instance, referred to as multimodal biometrics, offers a great way to enhance accuracy and security.” That’s a fancy way of saying biometric scanning will involve scanning your face […]

China’s Alibaba Is Shaping the Future of the Machine-Driven Hotel with Facial Scanning Technology. Just add China’s ‘social credit system’ and you are good to go (or not).

China’s Alibaba Is Shaping the Future of the Machine-Driven Hotel with Facial Scanning Technology. Raini Hamdi, Skift – Apr 01, 2019 2:30 am Imagine being in your room within one minute of arriving at your hotel. FlyZoo, a 290-room hotel located close to Alibaba Group’s headquarters in Hangzhou, a […]