As 2023 continues, the European Commission appears busy developing and running pilots for its EU Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI), which it intends to make available to all EU citizens in the near future. But while the European Commission (EC) boasts the prospective EUDI’s convenience, security, and wide range of prospective […]
The Allure of Easy: No Biggie… Except It’s Killing our Freedom
I’ve been threatening to reduce my time on digital devices for a year. Finally, inspired by Peco, Ruth Gaskovski, Roman S Shapoval and others, I started leaving my phone in another room an hour before bedtime, and in the morning, ignoring it in favor of heading immediately to the tiny little lollipop-shaped beach […]
Heading to Centralized Control: Digital Currencies (CBDC), Cyber Attacks & Climate
Originally published on the author’s Substack, Musings by Efrat Written by Efrat Fenigson for Bereshit Newspaper | Translated by Deborah Garber 🇪🇺 The European Union – Moving Towards CBDC Last month, a prank video by two podcasters called Van and Lexus posing as Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, who pulled a fast one […]
Iranian Women Are Under Digital Watch For Hijab Compliance
i24 News, a Tel Aviv-based international news organization, reported that the Iranian government is installing cameras in a growing number of public spaces to enforce the law that women must wear a hijab. Iran’s police chief made a statement, loosely translated by i24 News as follows: “With the use of advanced […]
War on Cash: India Rolling Out Retail Pilot Program for Digital Rupee
We recently reported that the Federal Reserve plans to launch a 12-week pilot program in partnership with several large commercial banks to test the feasibility of a central bank digital currency (CBDC). The US isn’t alone in experimenting with digital currency. India is working on developing a digital rupee and […]