With support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the United Nations this month launched its “50-in-5” campaign to promote and accelerate the development of a global digital public infrastructure. One critic called the campaign “a totalitarian nightmare” designed to “onboard” small countries with “digital ID, digital wallets, digital lawmaking, digital voting and more.”
A deepfake romance scam cost an elderly woman $81,000 and her home after a scammer impersonating General Hospital actor Steve Burton used an AI video to manipulate her....