HUMANS NEED NOT APPLY: AI TO TAKE OVER CUSTOMER SERVICE JOBS
The last ten years have been a rough time for many bank employees in Spain. The country’s lenders have laid off 89,500 workers on the back of narrowing margins, industry consolidation, mass closures of branches and gathering digitization. In 2008, when the financial crisis struck, Spain was home to some 278,000 banking professionals; today there are just 195,000. Another 3,000 redundancies are expected in the coming months, as Santander and Bankia plan to further streamline their businesses, pushing the total number of layoffs close to 95,000.
Share | 3 Comments WATCH AS CHAOS ERUPTS AT TOMMY ROBINSON PROTEST; POLICE CHASED DOWN STREET AS 1000S RAGE
Tommy Robinson supporters gathering in London to protest Robinson's jailing clashed with police at a Whitehall demonstration amid calls to free the English Defence League founder.
Share | 4 Comments ISRAELI COMPANY IS SELLING AUTONOMOUS SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS TO GOVERNMENTS AROUND THE WORLD
On Thursday, Israeli surveillance technology company Jenovice announced a slew of new surveillance products aimed at monitoring Wi-Fi enabled devices in order to gain intelligence on targets. The announcement was part of a presentation – “Tactical Wi-Fi Interception – Identify, Acquire, Intercept” – given at the Intelligence Support Systems for Electronic Surveillance, Social Media/DarkNet Monitoring and Cyber Crime Investigations, or ISS World Europe Conference, in Prague. Jenovice stated the presentation would “go over the challenges, limitations and operational solutions in tactical WiFi interception missions. We will cover the following: identifying targets, acquiring them and manipulating Wi-Fi enabled devices to extract intelligence.”
Share | 2 Comments FACEBOOK ONLY PRETENDED TO SHUT DOWN ACCESS TO FRIENDS' DATA IN 2015, QUIETLY CONTINUED ACCESS FOR ITS FAVORED PARTNERS
Facebook opened up access to friends' data through its API in a bid to attract developers to its platform, but in 2015, it incurred those developers' wrathwhen it pulled the rug out from under them, killing the API calls that allowed apps to mine their users' friends' data.
Share | 3 Comments WHY IS CARDINAL PAROLIN ATTENDING A BILDERBERG GROUP MEETING?
The Bilderberg Group is meeting in Turin this week, and Cardinal Pietro Parolin will be present. Cardinal Parolin is the Vatican’s Secretary of State, arguably the most senior official in the Vatican and the nearest thing the Holy See has to a prime minister.
Share | 8 Comments VOTE TO END FRACTIONAL RESERVE BANKING IN SWITZERLAND
A radical plan to transform Switzerland’s financial landscape by barring commercial banks from creating money when they lend looked set to fail, according to initial projections on Sunday.
Share | 2 Comments CONSPIRACY THEORY CONFIRMED: RESEARCHER SHOWS HOW PHONE SHOWS ADS BASED ON CONVERSATIONS IT HEARS
For years, smartphone users have been growing increasingly suspicious that their devices are listening to them to feed them advertisements and to “enhance their experience” on third-party apps. Companies like Google and Facebook have consistently denied these claims, saying that targeted ads and messages are merely a coincidence, and that data for these services are taken in other ways.
Share | 2 Comments TRADE-WAR DRUMS: IS MEXICO READY TO FIRE AT THE US CORN BELT?
Mexico, the birthplace of maize, is dangerously hooked on U.S. imports of largely transgenic strains of the crop. In 2017 it was the third biggest importer of corn in the world, behind the EU and Japan, purchasing 15.2 million tonnes of the foodstuff, most of it from U.S. farmers and agribusinesses. But that could soon change.
Share | 5 Comments HART: HOMELAND SECURITY’S MASSIVE NEW DATABASE WILL INCLUDE FACE RECOGNITION, DNA, AND PEOPLES’ “NON-OBVIOUS RELATIONSHIPS”
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is quietly building what will likely become the largest database of biometric and biographic data on citizens and foreigners in the United States. The agency’s new Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART)database will include multiple forms of biometrics—from face recognition to DNA, data from questionable sources, and highly personal data on innocent people. It will be shared with federal agencies outside of DHS as well as state and local law enforcement and foreign governments. And yet, we still know very little about it.
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