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What eventually becomes cutting-edge in retail and payments often originates in places that are dedicated to security, not commerce. New technology often starts out at the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) or NATO, for instance. Former Israeli intelligence agents or military members have taken the knowledge they gained during their service and contributed to artificial intelligence (AI), fraud prevention and other efforts that do make -- or can end up making -- a difference in the daily lives of consumers. Now, the time might be right to at least consider adding prisons to that mix. Let's not get ahead of ourselves -- there is little chance that any prison system will become a miniature Silicon Valley.