DANIEL COOPER

How can we tell if the identity we are interacting with online is genuine, or a fake account created to scam us? Trust is fundamental to our digital interactions, when all of which take place between pseudodyms and email addresses that are not necessarily grounded in physical identities... A multi-component platform was used to trial the machine learning technology, and engage with potential users to understand the effect the technology had on trusting individuals online. The platform comprised of browser extension, command line tools, user portals, combined with multiple backend microservices for the machine learning and DLT infrastructure... The University of Surrey is at the forefront of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), with their Blockchain research group, a research portfolio of over £3m in UKRI/EPSRC Digital Economy funded projects undertaking cross-disciplinary research that is transforming domains as diverse as digital records, healthcare, electronic voting, trust and..