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USPS agreed to fix this flaw in 2019(!) after its independent watchdog said that if USPS didn't implement a national policy to check IDs when receiving paper forms, it would harm USPS' "trusted" reputation. Yet, this fraud continues and hits thousands of people each year.
This isn’t just one former Microsoft executive who got unlucky. USPS is not adequately enforcing its own policy on identity checks when someone files a paper change of address form.
Here's our story: https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/01/us-postal-service-change-of-address-fraud/
Deepfake propaganda on Venezuelan state TV:
"They can’t keep building this technology, deploying it, privatizing all the profits and socializing the costs"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/03/02/deepfake-videos-venezuela-disinformation/
Last fall, Republicans gleefully predicted "Red Wave"... and then, election night, it didn't arrive. The day after, @invisibae and I set out to find the exact moment the previous evening that the GOP's hopes were dashed, using #AI, #machinelearning and #NLP. #nicar23 may be interested in this. Here's how it went:
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2. NO, I WOULD NOT LIKE TO SIGN IN TO GOOGLE
But Google keeps asking me. Again. And again. And again. And again.
Did they hire Clippy to revamp their login UX? I am grudgingly willing to click “Stay signed out” once. I am unwilling to click it in an interminable Sisyphean loop.
If I’m honest, this is the straw that broke the camel’s back.
Tagging in some other #ux and #accessibility people — @jonwiley @capwatkins @JoshHarwood @baxterkb?
Dear #fediverse,
Do I know anyone that knows someone working in computer usability, particularly accessibility for elders?
Discussing an important challenge with a friend; how do we get folks with cognitive impairments, like dementia and Alzheimer’s, to recognize visitors via telepresence? After many reminders that the “lady on the tv nurse isn’t taking to you”, this population is having a hard time believing that the person on the laptop screen is really there to talk to them.
#ElderCare #MemoryCare #WalkingEachOtherHome #UI
@futurebird @notsoloud @grumpy I’d be interested in the government doing something like providing freeish / open source banking tech that could make smaller banks more competitive.
Ditto creating open source, good benefits / administration software that states and municipalities can adopt.
@futurebird I was literally just tossing this idea around the other day. Banking in Europe is so much faster and better because regulations are different; we use credit cards for so much in the US partly because P2P wire transfers are so bad.
Why shouldn’t the government offer its own payment processing services and platform?
Zack Whittaker
Drew Harwell
Jeremy B. Merrill
Paul Cantrell
Sherri Koehler (she/her)
Mother Bones