Readit NewsSorry, I don't understand, perhaps because I am in the UK not US. My bank issues my Mastercard, so I don't have a direct relationship with them. How would they target me?
With the current level of oversight on the police (police of police is a meme by now), and the level of cybersecurity at the government, everyone's phones will be activated within a few months.
At least some government agent will have fun watching what ppl visit on the internet during their spare time, and can enable the camera to watch what they're doing when they review the content.
The fight against crime is ramping up !
I don't get why they don't hire back more detectives and accountants to really investigate actual evidence, instead of just listening to potential criminals for hours. They have been reducing the force for 15 years (especially the forces that investigated financial and workplace crimes)
That would be more effective.
And it's not all that sunny. A Sunday of course so lower demand. I'm going to switch of my solar panels. We have a dynamic tarif, so I actually get these prices and will pay to deliver power.
Net metering in the Netherlands makes it not relevant for most people to curtail their solar panels. Apparently we have the most installed capacity per capita in the world, die to these incentives. They did their job, time for a next step: storage.
A better example would be encryption keys.
-- excerpt from A Cypherpunk's Manifesto, Eric Hughes, March 9, 1993
But if it goes the way of the Human Brain Project, it will alter course next year and become 100 small projects
Besides, our laws make it virtually impossible to train these models without getting sued. Not to talk about their output, a defamation lawsuit magnet.
EU is pretty much locked out of the future of AI
And that's why we're in this mess to begin with. Credit card transactions are reported to credit bureaus (from a quick web search, it looks like debit card transactions aren't) and this normalizes the idea that your financial data should be shared freely amongst finance companies.
There's really no such thing as a free lunch, or a free loan. When someone offers you one, it's good to understand how you're going to be paying for it.
A cash transaction is between 2 parties. A debit card transaction is between 5: consumer, consumer's bank, merchant, merchant's bank, payment network/card provider.