Issues
REAL ID: 15 Years On and Still Not in Full Effect
On this date in 2008, the REAL ID Act was supposed to go into effect. It didn’t. And it still isn’t in full effect to this day. Last December, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) extended the enforcement deadline yet again for two more years,...
Central Bank Digital Currency: Paper Money isn’t the Solution
Physical paper money solves some of the privacy and security issues inherent in central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). But a lot of people seem to have forgotten that government-issued paper fiat is the parent of a CBDC, and it won’t solve the more fundamental...
Here’s How the Federal Government Is Mucking Up the Inflation Fight
By hiking interest rates, the Federal Reserve has pulled some of its monetary stimulus out of the economy. While the Fed hasn’t done nearly enough to put the inflationary fire it lit with more than a decade of easy money, cooling consumer price index (CPI)...
Clearview Facial Recognition: A Perpetual Police Lineup
Clearview AI CEO Hoan Ton-That admitted that the company scraped 30 billion photos from Facebook and other social media platforms and used them in its massive facial recognition database accessible by law enforcement agencies across the U.S. Critics call the...