In a 26th May Wired newsletter titled “Everyone Wants to Regulate AI. No One Can Agree How” Steven Levy explores efforts to regulate AI development. A Forbes headline four days later sums it up: “AI Could Cause Human ‘Extinction,’ Tech Leaders Warn.” In what must be a first among appeals

As an outsider to the Ethereum community, and for that matter the blockchain community, allow me to express my admiration, and even amazement, at an accomplishment that I would have thought was impossible: creation of a viable currency, exhibiting both fungibility and double-spend prevention, that is not issued by any

NFTs provide a way of claiming and registering ownership. For intangibles such as image files they serve the same function as a registry of deeds does for tangible real estate, or a motor vehicles department that issues and records the title to your car. But the “registry” of an NFT

US News & World Report warns in its article entitled Crypto Crash: How Stable Are Stablecoins? That the best efforts of crypto systems to ensure stability and safety appear to be faltering. A stablecoin’s value is typically pegged to an underlying fiat currency, the idea being to allow for an

In 2005 Kim Cameron wrote his Laws of Identity and explored ways to give internet users safety, privacy, and certainity regarding who they were engaging with online.  Cameron had observed that people had started using digital identity credentials to manage and exchange items of high real-world value. His 7 Laws

Over the years, there has been a number of schemes developed for what I will call “collegial attestation.” When the claims of one member of a community are attested to by other members, that’s collegial attestation. One of the most talked about schemes nowadays is the claim of identity

T-Mobile revealed that it has suffered yet another data breach last November. The attackers accessed data belonging to 37million T-Mobile’s current customers. The data included names, emails, dates of birth. Phone numbers, and billing addresses. T-Mobile reported that no credit card information or social security numbers were exposed. However,

Anonymity has become desirable to most internet users and it’s not difficult to see why. Federal governments and silicon valley corporations have been indiscriminately eroding user privacy to serve their selfish interest. Everyone wants privacy and anonymity for themselves. Similarly, everyone wants accountability from others they encounter online. On

Let’s face it. Almost every day there’s a new case of identity theft or online fraud despite there being countless recommendations on how to prevent it. Cybersecurity experts have been playing a cops and robbers game with cybercriminals for the longest time. If the constant stream of reports

Back in July this year, Glassdoor lost a lawsuit and was ordered to reveal the identities of anonymous users who left unfavourable reviews, so that a company could sue its former employees. While there are no specific details of what exactly transpired between the company and its employees, Glassdoor’s

As society wrings its figurative hands over questions of artificial intelligence replacing humans, consider for a moment that AI has been around ever since the first time an IF statement in a program was executed. Execution of an IF statement constitutes a machine making a decision. You might say that’

You may have heard that Idi Amin, the dictatorial president of Uganda from 25 January 1971 to 11 April 1979, also claimed the title of “Last King of Scotland.” Years ago a person I work with read the book of the same title by Giles Foden. It ends with a

In his article “How to Deal With Undetectable Deep Fakes [https://www.howtogeek.com/773078/how-to-deal-with-undetectable-deepfakes/]” Sydney Butler explores how sophisticated deep fakes have become, noting that it has become increasingly difficult for the ordinary web user to detect fake images and videos. For that matter, it has become increasingly

In his January 4th [https://themarkup.org/news/2022/01/04/why-its-so-hard-to-regulate-algorithms] article for The Markup [https://themarkup.org/news/2022/01/04/why-its-so-hard-to-regulate-algorithms], Todd Feathers notes that “Governments increasingly use algorithms to do everything from assign benefits to dole out punishment—but attempts to regulate them have been unsuccessful.

“The future is centralized vs. decentralized” Jeff Deist is right. In fact, that future is already here. The centralized vs. decentralized governance debate is growing every day. Decentralization enthusiasts are convinced that it is the next big thing. They cannot wait for web3 to take form and shape. Then there’