| Website | https://www.nishantkaushik.com |
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| Pronouns | He/Him |
Signal releases a statement on the UK government’s demand for #AgeVerification and content scanning. Agree with the core premise that surveillance is not the answer. Any approach must respect #privacy, human dignity, freedom (esp. for targeted communities), and choice.
https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/2026-06-08-uk-surveillance-is-not-safety.pdf
A lot of the discussion around agentic payments understandably focuses on the “wait … how exactly is this supposed to work safely?” part. Which makes sense, given that we are talking about autonomous software making decisions that eventually lead to money moving around.
So when AP2 and Verifiable Intent were contributed into the FIDO Alliance, it gave me the chance to dig into this topic a lot deeper. I wrote up my understanding in a (slightly) more technical follow-up to the announcements, intended to give a clearer picture of what has actually been contributed to the FIDO Alliance and where the thinking in the Payments Technical Working Group may be heading.
Moving this work from invention and experimentation into open standardization is a pretty important milestone. Agentic payments will ultimately need a shared, interoperable trust layer for identity, consent, and delegation. Building that with the broader ecosystem is crucial to avoid us ending up with 47 incompatible versions of “trust me, the AI meant to do that.”
Look forward to hearing your thoughts.
#AgenticPayments #AI #Payments #Intent #DigitalTrust #VerifiableIntent #AP2 #Standards
https://fidoalliance.org/building-the-trust-layer-for-agentic-payments-with-ap2-and-verifiable-intent/
This World Passkey Day, take a moment to thank your passwords for their years of service. Then, escort them gently to retirement before they reset themselves for the 14th time this quarter.
To every company still making users create complex passwords with inscrutable complexity rules, consider this your friendly intervention. The passwordless future is already here. Passkeys are making sign-ins faster, phishing-resistant, and dramatically less painful for users everywhere. That means fewer “Forgot Password?” clicks and fewer support tickets fueled by existential despair.
The time is now. Stop treating passkeys like a “coming soon” feature and start treating passwords like fax machines with better PR.
Happy #WorldPasskeyDay from all of us here at the FIDO Alliance.
Google and Mastercard contributing the AP2 protocol and Verifiable Intent framework resp. to our Payments TWG work to secure Agentic Payments + the launch of our Agentic Authentication TWG = the FIDO Alliance leaning in to help build a trust layer for the AgenticAI-powered Internet.
#Payments #AgenticAI #Authentication #DigitalTrust
https://www.wired.com/story/the-race-is-on-to-keep-ai-agents-from-running-wild-with-your-credit-cards/
I've seen many of my #identirati friends share their replacebyclawd results of how "replaceable" they are by AI, mainly for fun.
Interestingly, the results don't show how many tokens it would consume each month to replace them. Might be even more fun to add that to the tool.
And then all my friends should go ask for a raise. 🙂
First they ask for your date of birth,
but later they claim it's not enough.
Then they ask for your full name and location,
but later they claim it's not enough.
Then they ask for a copy of your passport,
but later they claim it's not enough.
Then they ask for your facial scan,
but later they claim it's not enough.
Then they ask for your fingerprints,
but later they claim it's not enough.
Then they ask for your palm scan,
but later they claim it's not enough.
Then they ask for a scan of your iris,
but later they claim it's not enough.
Then they ask for ...
#MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism #AgeVerification #Privacy #Democracy #HumanRights
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