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Amid privacy and security failures, digital IDs advance

January 6, 2020 admin BlockChain, Emerging Technology, Financial Services Industry, Government IT, Identity Management, privacy, Security

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 03:00:00 -0800

Frustration over a growing number of privacy and security failuresin recent years is driving the creation of digital identities controlled only by those whose information they contain.

Known as “self-sovereign identities,” the digital IDs will be used by consumers, businesses, their workers and governments over the next few years to verify everything from credit worthiness and college diplomas to licenses and business-to-business credentials.

“We are slowly graduating from crawling to walking. It takes one to two years ’til we have reliable capabilities to spark meaningful decentralized identity adoption,” said Homan Farahmand, a senior research director at Gartner. “A major non-technical hurdle is for organizations to learn the concept and take the necessary steps to appropriately adapt their business processes to decentralized identity ecosystems.”

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Blockchain/IoT integration accelerates, hits a 'sweet spot'

December 12, 2019 admin BlockChain, Emerging Technology, Internet of Things, Open Source, Security, supply chain management

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 03:00:00 -0800

Three-quarters of companies implementing IoT have already adopted blockchain or plan to use it by the end of 2020, an indicator of the growing connection between the two, according to a survey of 500 U.S. companies by Gartner.

While the marriage between the two technologies has been expected to be crucial for industry digital transformation, the adoption rate is happening at a “much faster pace than expected,” Gartner said.

“Among the blockchain adopters, 86% are implementing the two technologies together in various projects,” Avivah Litan, a Gartner vice president and report author, wrote in a blog. She called IoT integration “a sweet spot” for blockchain, the much-hyped distributed ledger technology.

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Blockchain/IoT integration accelerates, hits a 'sweet spot' for the two technologies

December 11, 2019 admin BlockChain, Emerging Technology, Internet of Things, Open Source, Security, supply chain management

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 03:00:00 -0800

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Utah county moves to expand mobile voting through blockchain

October 21, 2019 admin BlockChain, Emerging Technology, Government IT, privacy, Security

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 03:00:00 -0700

Disabled voters in Utah County will be able to use their smartphones to vote in the November municipal election, an expansion of an earlier pilot test of the blockchain-based technology and anothert step toward allowing all voters to cast ballots with a mobile device.

The county, which has more than a half million residents, is the third in the U.S. to partner with Tusk Philanthropies, a non-profit focused on expanding mobile voting nationally. The latest pilot is a collaboration between the Utah County Elections Division, Tusk Philanthropies, the National Cybersecurity Center and Boston-based voting app developer Voatz.

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Why France and Germany fear Facebook’s cryptocurrency – and plan to block it

September 18, 2019 admin BlockChain, Emerging Technology, Financial Services Industry, Security

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 03:00:00 -0700

Facebook’s plans to launch its own Libra cryptocurrency next year is getting resistance from France and Germany who have promised to block it and plan to create their own national cryptocurrencies.

Last week, the two nations said Libra could threaten the Euro’s value and unlawfully privatize money. Last year, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the country’s central bank, announced a ban on the use of cryptocurrencies by any regulated financial entity because of risks associated with it.

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