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Here's a picture of the motorcade of US President-elect, Donald John Trump as it arrived Palm Beach International Airport, Florida, on Thanksgiving day. This impressive convoy looks more like the motorcade of someone who is already serving as President.
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Pictures show the lavish mansion Donald Trump will be spending Thanksgiving in this year.
The President-elect will spend time at his sprawling estate in Palm Beach, Florida, USA, with wife Melania and son Barron.
His Mar-a-Lago estate includes a 58-bedroom mansion , a beach club, ballroom, spa, tennis and croquet courts.
Trump bought the estate in 1993 with then-wife Ivana, splashing out $10 million, Daily Mirror reports.
These images, taken in 1993 by local photographer CJ Walker, also show Trump's former 727 jet flying over the property.Trump has since revamped more of the 55,700sq ft main building, which has 33 bathrooms.
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Here's a picture of the motorcade of US President-elect, Donald John Trump as it arrived Palm Beach International Airport, Florida, on Thanksgiving day. This impressive convoy looks more like the motorcade of someone who is already serving as President.
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The regulator made the comments as it set out draft proposals on strong customer authentication (51-page / 452KB PDF) as part of its obligations under the new Payment Services Directive (PSD2). PSD2 came into force earlier this year and will need to be implemented into national laws across the EU by 13 January 2018.
PSD2 generally requires PSPs to apply "strong customer authentication" where organisations or consumers try to access their payment accounts online, initiate an electronic payment transaction or "carries out any action through a remote channel which may imply a risk of payment fraud or other abuses".
Those provisions also apply to cases where payments are initiated through payment initiation service providers (PISPs) or where account holders request information about their accounts via an account information service provider (AISP).
PSD2 imposes data security obligations on PSPs to account for such third party interactions with the accounts they manage and PSPs must also ensure that PISPs and AISPs can rely on the strong customer authentication measures deployed by a PSP to deliver their services.
According to the Directive, strong customer authentication is a mechanism that requires payment account holders wishing to access their accounts or make a payment to provide information that allows their identity to be verified and which is built on two or more independent factors. Those elements are something the account holder knows, something they possess or something inherent in them.
In seeking to define the regulatory technical standards for strong customer authentication, the EBA said that "behavioural data cannot be considered as a standalone inherence element", but that it can be used as "an additional tool for fraud prevention".
According to the draft standards, to comply with the requirements for strong customer authentication PSPs will require to generate a one-time-only "authentication code" that those making payment will need to input to proceed with an electronic payment.
The standard proposed by the EBA is drafted in such as way as to be technologically neutral. However, the regulator said that the authentication code must contain "security features" that at least include "algorithm specifications, length, information entropy and expiration time". The security features must ensure authentication elements remain confidential, that new authentication codes cannot be generated "based on the knowledge of another authentication code generated for the same payer" and that the authentication code is forgery-proof, it said.
The new standards, if introduced as drafted, will require PSPs to place a maximum limit on the number of times customers can enter the wrong authentication details consecutively. Measures must also be taken to ensure customers seeking to make payments are provided with information about that transaction via a separate "channel, device or mobile application" from those used for initiating the payment.
"The authentication procedure should ensure the confidentiality, authenticity and integrity of the information displayed to the payer through all phases of the authentication procedure including generation, transmission and use of the authentication code," the EBA said.
"To that end, the channel, device or mobile application where the information about the amount and the payee of the transaction is displayed should be independent or segregated from the channel, device or mobile application used for initiating the payment. This can be done, for example, via an independent channel to prevent any manipulation of the transaction details through the initiation process of the payment transaction," it said.
The EBA said PSPs must carry out periodical testing, evaluation and auditing of the security of their authentication procedure.
"The conduct of such evaluation, which should rely on openly and publicly available state-of-the-art methods, must be organisationally independent from the units involved in the design, development and maintenance of the strong customer authentication procedure," the EBA said.
Among the transactions that the EBA has proposed be exempt from strong customer authentication requirements are contactless payments with a value of €50 or less and credit payments made by payers to their "trusted beneficiaries".
The EBA is consulting on its proposals until 12 October.
"It's interesting to see neither APIs or screen scraping approaches mentioned by name in the EBA's consultation but the options are explored – the EBA has stuck with an approach of technical neutrality but many banks are pushing for an API approach to be adopted to accept that third party providers can connect into their data and functions," technology and payments law expert Angus McFadyen of Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind Out-Law.com, said.
"There is a view that screen scraping presents security concerns that are not manageable. The UK's open data initiative is driving towards an API approach – this may yet blaze the way for mass market account access (XS2A) in Europe and beyond. That said, the EBA seems open to allowing screen scraping and comments from regulators in the past have suggested that it is an increasingly acceptable means of operating, despite it being challenged in the early 2000s," he said.
"Banks and IT vendors need to jump on this consultation, doing everything that they can to shape the RTS to a workable model. Whilst there is a good base, the exemptions in particular require significant development to make strong authentication work well in a mobile environment," McFadyen said.
According to a recent report by PwC (23-page / 1.32MB PDF), more than two-thirds of European bankers "fear that PSD2 will cause them to lose control of the client interface". The report said that many banks are "unsure how to respond to the new directive" and are "adopting a defensive, wait-and-see stance that is risk averse".
Los Angeles (CNN)A hammer pounds away in the living room of a middle class home. A sanding machine smoothes the grain of the wood floor in the dining room.
But this home Pastor Ada Valiente is showing off in Los Angeles, with its refurbished floors, is no ordinary home.
"It would be three families we host here," Valiente says.
By "host," she means provide refuge to people who may be sought by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE. The families staying here would be undocumented immigrants, fearing an ICE raid and possible deportation.
The purchase of this home is part of a network formed by Los Angeles religious leaders across faiths in the wake of Donald Trump's election. The intent is to shelter hundreds, possibly thousands of undocumented people in safe houses across Southern California.
The goal is to offer another sanctuary beyond religious buildings or schools, ones that require federal authorities to obtain warrants before entering the homes.
"That's what we need to do as a community to keep families together," Valiente says.
At another Los Angeles neighborhood miles away, a Jewish man shows off a sparsely decorated spare bedroom in his home. White sheets on the bed and the clean, adjacent full bathroom bear all the markers of an impending visit. The man, who asked not to be identified, pictures an undocumented woman and her children who may find refuge in his home someday.
The man says he's never been in trouble before and has difficulty picturing that moment. But he's well educated and understands the Fourth Amendment, which gives people the right to be secure in their homes, against unreasonable searches and seizures. He's pictured the moment if ICE were to knock on his door.
"I definitely won't let them in. That's our legal right," he says. "If they have a warrant, then they can come in. I can imagine that could be scary, but I feel the consequences of being passive in this moment is a little scary."
Rev. Zach Hoover wants to help immigrant families fearing deportation stay hidden and together.
The religious leaders have a name for their network: the Rapid Response Team. The idea is not necessarily a new one, according to Reverend Zach Hoover, executive director of the interfaith community organization LA Voice.
Hoover, 37, wasn't an active member during the Sanctuary Movement of the 1980s when US congregations across faiths resisted federal law and provided shelter for Central Americans fleeing violence in their home countries. Many congregations offered direct sanctuary, housing the undocumented immigrants, while others offered food and legal assistance.
The Rapid Response Team mirrors that structure, but goes one step further by also incorporating private homes, which offer a higher level of constitutional protection than houses of worship and an ability to make it harder for federal agents to find undocumented immigrants.
Religious leaders in Los Angeles that spoke to CNN are skeptical whether that policy will stand under a Trump presidency.
"There's a difference between someone knocking on your door at the church who's a federal agent and someone knocking on the door of your home, where, if they don't have a warrant, they shouldn't be entering," Hoover says.
In the hours after Trump's initial executive order on immigration, calls between religious organizers picked up, and the network rapidly grew. Hoover estimates the underground network could hide 100 undocumented people today. Soon, he believes, they could hide thousands.
Hoover points out that's a tiny fraction of the estimated one million undocumented immigrants in Los Angeles county. The network's focus would be on families fearing separation and working to keep them together by "moving into a place so that ICE can't find them," Hoover says.
"So they can stay with their families. So they can be with their husbands," Hoover says. "So they can avoid being detained and deported. Everybody talks about how families are the bedrock of our country. We believe that. Our congregations believe that."
Pastor Ada Valiente is putting her trust in God that faith leaders are doing the right thing.
The strong current carrying the Rapid Response Team is the divergence of federal laws and the moral teachings of their religions. Hoover points to the Bible's Matthew 25, which teaches the faithful should feed the hungry and fight for those in prison.
"The God that I worship sent a person to earth in the name of Jesus who did not always get along with the authorities," Hoover explains. "I feel really convicted that I answer to God at the end of the day. That's who I'm going to see when I die."
Pastor Valiente echoes that sentiment, saying US immigration laws are broken and her church's foundation are the families.
"We're trusting in God, that he will help us and guide us to make the right decision, to have something better come out of this," Valiente says.
Valiente says she's praying President Trump's heart will grow more compassionate to the plight of undocumented immigrants.
"He needs to make immigration laws that work for our families," Valiente says.
The Jewish man offering his home as a safe house says he draws upon his religion's history during WWII. As the Nazis rounded up Jews for detention and eventual extermination, Germans resisted their government, hiding their Jewish friends and neighbors in attics and basements.
"It's hard as a Jew," he says, "not to think about both all the people who did open their doors and their homes and take risks to safeguard Jews in [a] moment when they were really vulnerable, as well as those who didn't. We'd like to be the people who did."
He's not the only one in his community feeling this way. Volunteers are flooding in to offer to help with the network at Temple Israel of Hollywood, according to Heidi Segal, the temple's vice president of social action.
Three weeks ago, Temple Israel of Hollywood began a phone bank to call lawmakers. On the day CNN visited the temple, the room was filled with volunteers.
"Our immigration resistance effort," Segal says as she shows off the room.
While the temple is not offering direct refuge at their temple for the undocumented, volunteers will escort immigrants for deportation interviews. They're also offering free legal advice and support, as well as stocking sanctuary houses with food and clothing.
"We had a really strong response immediately and as people learn, the response is just growing," Segal says.
Pastor Ada Valiente stands in a home meant to house undocumented immigrants.
The growing energy of the network doesn't mean the members aren't also apprehensive or fearful about the consequences. The people forming the network are not a crowd with criminal records. While there's clarity in the sanctity of family and religious calling, there's also concern about how the new Department of Justice will operate under Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
The Jewish man offering his home as a safe house says it's "certainly scary." While he's not clear on the consequences of what he's doing, or where he draws his limits, he is clear on one point.
"I think I know what the moral consequences are for me if we don't act. This isn't a moment to be standing idly by," he says. "This is a moment to be engaged and involved and I think we're seeing that across America where people are saying this isn't okay. We're not going to tolerate this and we'll have our voices heard."
Mark Krikorian, executive director of the conservative Center for Immigration Studies, says the law is clear about what these groups are intending to do.
"They're committing a felony. Harboring is a felony," Krikorian says. "Regular folks hiding people in a basement face jail time because it is ultimately a smuggling conspiracy."
Hoover, a self-professed good Midwestern-raised boy, says he's prepared for the federal consequences.
Valiente says religious leaders opposing immigration crackdowns believe one simple thing: "We're doing what we think is right."
Valiente says the last of the construction on her safe house is nearly complete. She'll house someone, she fears, as soon as next month.
UPDATE: With an introduction from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Donald Trump took the stage Tuesday night at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach.
"This has been an amazing evening already," Trump said of his Super Tuesday wins.
"We're gonna spend a lot of time in Florida," Trump said, adding that he's making big investments in Florida and Virginia.
Trump promised to stop companies from moving to Mexico, along with creating jobs in the U.S.
"We are losing so much. We can't let it happen," Trump said.
He also touted his campaign as helping "expand the Republican party" — because, he said, he's drawing people to the polls who otherwise may not have voted or were registered to vote as Democrats.
When asked about whether or not he had been "equivocal" about hate groups endorsing his campaign, Trump said he has "disavowed" the KKK (read more about that here) several times at campaign appearances, on social media and on TV appearances.
When asked if Florida Gov. Rick Scott would endorse him, Trump said he did not know who Scott would endorse.
EARLIER STORY: Just before 7 p.m. Tuesday, with polls set to start closing
across several Super Tuesday states, at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, reporters and other media, having worked their way through the usual security checks, waited in a large conference room.
Dozens of cameras framed the room, flanked at one end with a stage lined with U.S. flags. Cords snaked across the floor. An official provided microphone sound checks. And in a practice to which bored and desperate reporters sometimes descend, they were taking pictures of each other taking pictures of each other.
The only news during the long wait: news reports about early returns from Super Tuesday states. And an email from Trump's campaign just before 8 p.m. saying he'd be holding a rally Saturday at the University of Central Florida, near Orlando.
Click here for a photo gallery from the event
LIVE on #Periscope: Conference room where Trump is set to speak at 9 PM https://t.co/uPvkb9xeMd
— Eliot Kleinberg (@eliotkpbp) March 1, 2016
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