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#digitalwallets

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Heather

We keep saying “wallet,” but is that metaphor helping anyone? This week’s post takes a closer look at what #digitalwallets really are and why the term might be holding us back. Curious what we should call them instead? I’ve got questions. You might have answers.

#VerifiableCredentials

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Spherical Cow Consulting · Kill the Wallet? Rethinking the Metaphors Behind Digital IdentityIs the digital identity wallet metaphor helping or hurting adoption? A look at where the term breaks down and what might work better.
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PC World: Firefox is being flooded with crypto wallet scam extensions. “Dozens of fake cryptocurrency wallet extensions—indistinguishable from their nominally legitimate counterparts—are flooding Firefox’s add-on repository. It’s a problem.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/09/pc-world-firefox-is-being-flooded-with-crypto-wallet-scam-extensions/

ResearchBuzz: Firehose | Individual posts from ResearchBuzz · PC World: Firefox is being flooded with crypto wallet scam extensions | ResearchBuzz: Firehose
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#browseraddons#browsers#cryptocurrency
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W3C Developers

Government-approved digital credentials (driver license, etc.) are becoming more commonly used online. The @w3c Digital Credentials #API enables websites to request credentials, and for users to consent to return credentials that they carry around in #DigitalWallets
▶️ w3.org/TR/digital-credentials/
#FPWD #timetogiveinput

@simone explains how this API advances #privacy-preserving Web identities: w3.org/blog/2025/w3c-digital-c #gdc25

Feedback welcome: github.com/w3c-fedid/digital-c

www.w3.orgDigital CredentialsThis document specifies an API to enable user agents to mediate presentation and issuance of digital credentials such as a driver's license, government-issued identification card, and/or other types of digital credential. The API builds on Credential Management Level 1 as a means by which to request or issue a digital credential from a user agent or underlying platform.
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Krebs on Security: Arrests in Tap-to-Pay Scheme Powered by Phishing. “Authorities in Knoxville, Tennessee last week said they arrested 11 Chinese nationals accused of buying tens of thousands of dollars worth of gift cards at local retailers with mobile wallets created through online phishing scams. The Knox County Sheriff’s office said the arrests are considered the first in the nation for […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/22/krebs-on-security-arrests-in-tap-to-pay-scheme-powered-by-phishing/

ResearchBuzz: Firehose | Individual posts from ResearchBuzz · Krebs on Security: Arrests in Tap-to-Pay Scheme Powered by Phishing | ResearchBuzz: Firehose
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#crime#cybersecurity#digitalwallets
Danie van der Merwe

Japanese orgs now paying salaries direct into e-wallets

Ten subsidiaries of Japanese tech conglomerate SoftBank Group have begun paying employees’ salaries into SoftBank’s own PayPay digital wallet.

PayPay is the largest mobile payment app in Japan and is owned by LY Corporation – a Softbank subsidiar ...continues

See gadgeteer.co.za/japanese-orgs-

GadgeteerZA · Japanese orgs now paying salaries direct into e-walletsTen subsidiaries of Japanese tech conglomerate SoftBank Group have begun paying employees' salaries into SoftBank's own PayPay digital wallet.
#banking#digitalwallets#technology
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