UK Column News - 1st November 2024

Source: ukcolumn

Mike Robinson, Mark Anderson and Debi Evans with today’s UK Column News.

 

Rolling Out Control: The New Office for Digital Identities and Attributes for Digital ID Implementation

00:00 UK Parliament: Parliamentary Bills: Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL]

GOV.UK: UK digital identity and attributes trust framework alpha v1 (0.1)

GOV.UK: Office for Digital Identities and Attributes

GOV.UK: A way to prove who you are that is fit for the UK’s digital economy

UKAS: UK Digital Identity and Attributes Trust Framework

GOV.UK: List of certified digital identity and attribute services

Biometric Update: Biometrics, digital ID make ‘fully digital travel experience’ a reality: IATA

 

Where Are Tax Funds Wasted? Assisted Dying as a Cost-Cutting Measure?

06:51 GOV.UK: New funding to fix the NHS: here’s how it will be spent

Sky News: Budget 2024: Biggest day-to-day increase in NHS spending since 2010 announced

The BMJ: Covid–19: Government aims to appoint corruption tsar within weeks

Civil Service World: Recruitment begins for Covid corruption tsar

Transparency International UK: New research raises corruption questions over billions in Covid public spending

Sky News: Budget 2024: Biggest tax rise since 1993—with employers to bear the brunt

Daily Mail: MPs and peers call for public inquiry into assisted dying

Government of Canada: Medical assistance in dying: Overview

House of Lords Library: Hospices: State funding

Hospice UK: Urgent call to save end of life care as 20% of hospices threatened by cuts

i News: End-of-life care to be ‘stripped back’ if NHS can’t fund hospices hit by tax hike

The Telegraph:  Terminally ill risk being coerced to end lives for insurance payout, campaigners warn (Archived)

 

Automating Death: Swiss Sarco Suicide Salesmen Seek AI for Reduced Human Intervention

15:20 Daily Mail: Sarco suicide pod bosses are building a NEW capsule to carry out a SECOND euthanasia outside of Switzerland after cops seized original device in ‘strangulation’ probe

Wired: The Doctor Behind the ‘Suicide Pod’ Wants AI to Assist at the End of Life

 

The Future of Cash Lies in Our Hands—Yet the Push for CBDCs Intensifies

17:21 The Washington Post: How technology is reshaping the future of money and finance 

Washington Post Live (YouTube): Craig Vosburg: ‘There will always be a role for cash’

Like any other good central bank, the Fed will move forward only if there is broad, public and political support for it, and we are not there yet…

 

Cash in Hand: The Last Defence Against a World Going Digital—Hold On While You Can

22:02 Juniper Research: Global CBDCs & Stablecoins Market: 2024–2031

Group of Thirty (YouTube): G30 39th Annual International Banking Seminar

Pymnts: Adding Value, Driving Growth: Industry Leaders Map the Future of Financial Services

Hong Kong Monetary Authority: Project mBridge reaches MVP stage

Interfax: BRICS Bridge digital payment platform to boost trade between group’s states, says Russian senator

 

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UK Column interview: Stolen Youth—with Montgomery Toms

 

Trust in Media Is Beyond Repair—Especially When Billionaires Curate the Headlines

30:21 The Washington Post (Opinion): The hard truth: Americans don’t trust the news media—By Jeff Bezos

Britannica: Jeff Bezos: Biography, Amazon, & Facts

The Amazon founder bought The Washington Post from the Graham family in 2013 for $250 million.

CNN: Jeff Bezos defends Washington Post non-endorsement after subscribers flee and staffers resign

Gallup News: Americans’ Trust In Media Remains Near Record Low

Federal Reserve History: Eugene I. Meyer

 

Online Safety Act: Protecting Kids from the Dangers of… Unauthorised Knowledge!

37:20 The World Economic Forum (WEF): Why younger generations need critical thinking, fact-checking and media verification to stay safe online

BBC: The Online Safety Act is one year old. Has it made children any safer?

Holyrood: A digital tightrope: will the Online Safety Act deliver on its promises?

Molly Rose Foundation: One year on from the Online Safety Act: Strengthen the Act to protect young lives

YouTube Official Blog: Expanding our support for teen wellbeing on YouTube across Europe

TikTok Newsroom: TikTok Youth Council holds first meetings, as new research shows teens want to work directly with platforms

Meta: Introducing Instagram Teen Accounts: Built-In Protections for Teens, Peace of Mind for Parents

Full Fact: Revitalised Online Safety Act should help fact checkers turn the tide on misinformation

The Telegraph: Online safety laws ‘pose substantial risks to our economy‘

Full Fact: Ofcom should move now to set up its Advisory Committee on Disinformation and Misinformation

 

Who Are First Draft News? Claire Wardle, Infodemics, Information Disorder and the Rise of Fact-Checkers

43:49 World Health Organization (WHO): Infodemic

An infodemic is too much information including false or misleading information in digital and physical environments during a disease outbreak. It causes confusion and risk-taking behaviours that can harm health.

CNN (YouTube): Donald Trump shuts down CNN reporter: “You’re fake news”

Profolus (2019): Wardle-Derakhshan Framework of Information Disorder

ResearchGate (2017): INFORMATION DISORDER : Toward an interdisciplinary framework for research and policy making Information Disorder Toward an interdisciplinary framework for research and policymaking

The World Economic Forum (WEF): Claire Wardle—Professor, Brown University School of Public Health

Journalism: First Draft Coalition launches website to help journalists work with eyewitness media

Wikipedia: First Draft News

Wikispooks: First Draft

Brown University: Information Futures Lab—Where Ideas and Evidence Meet Policy and Practice

The Council of Europe: Information disorder: Toward an interdisciplinary framework for research and policy making (2017)

First Draft (YouTube 2020): Why misinformation matters—Training video with Claire Wardle

Health Affairs: A Systematic Review Of Covid–19 Misinformation Interventions: Lessons Learned

World Health Organization (WHO 2022): Rumour Tracker Programme: A community-based approach to address information gaps and misinformation on Covid–19

 

2024 US Election: Poised to Be the Least Trusted Yet—And That’s Saying Something

54:08 VoterGA: Events: New Evidence Shows GA SOS Certified Wrong Winners in 2020

VoterGA (Rumble): Press Conference, 30 October 2024: New Evidence to Show GA SOS Certified Wrong Winners in 2020—Focused Efforts Can Prevent Faulty Certification in 2024

Talk Markets: Eerily Symbolic: Treasury Seal Falls Off Podium As Yellen Fields Question About The Dollar’s Status