#092 - The Passport the Machine Carries in Your Name
Let's talk about the week the card networks started issuing passports to machines — and why the signature on them is not yours. On 2 September, Anthropic published a blueprint for commerce agents on Claude — reference implementations for a shopping agent and a merchant agent, covering catalogue, cart, checkout, order history. Shopify, Visa and Mastercard were attached early. On its own, that's a product announcement. Read next to the rest of that fortnight and it stops being one. FIDO Alliance is drafting interoperability standards…This episode of WE ARE STILL HUMAN examines the human stakes…
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