The digital wallet will sit on people’s phones and may be used instead of a passport or driver’s licence. Follow the day’s news liveThe Greens communications spokesperson, Sarah Hanson-Young has spoken to ABC TV this morning following Bill Shorten’s Q&A appearance, accusing the government of “not showing enough spine to stare down these big gambling lobby groups who have had a free ride for far too long”.Hanson-Young didn’t deny that commercial media was facing challenges. But she said the government needed to address the harm being done to people.We know that media across the country is in trouble. There is a struggle with the big social media giants. But it shouldn’t be vulnerable children and those families that are being torn apart because of gambling that are forced to carry the cost.And that is just ridiculous to suggest that vulnerable families, individuals who have gambling addictions, should be the ones who are carrying the can rather than finding a better way to support media in this country.The token will be a valuable promise to the club, but of zero value to a cybercriminal because the confirmation token will not contain any personal information.The strength of TEx lies in its potential to give Australians control of their data that will rival the gold standard General Data Protection Regulation in Europe but without the regulation and complexity. Continue reading…
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Publish date : 2024-08-12 21:39:07
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