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Warren Flags Crypto Ties to Child Sexual Abuse in Letter to DOJ, Homeland Security
26.4.2024
Leading crypto critic U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has asked U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland what tools the federal government needs to crack down on the use of digital assets to perpetrate child sexual exploitation, according to a letter she sent to the top U.S. law-enforcement...
Unveiling the Dark Web: How Privacy Coins Fuel the Trade of Criminal Material Online
1.3.2024
Privacy coins are fuelling the proliferation of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), according to Chainalysis’s 2024 Crypto Crime Report. The report highlights crypto’s growing role as legal tender among dark web vendors of CSAM. Like other things listed on the dark web, CSAM is often...
Report: Predators Are Using Twitch 'Clips' To Spread Child Abuse
5.1.2024
Trigger warning: This post talks about child predation and sexual abuse.Read more
Data encryption a threat to fighting child sexual abuse, says DOJ
11.10.2020
The department, along with other international agencies, alleged end-to-end encryption can create “severe risks to public safety.”
Over $900K in Bitcoin Went to Child Sexual Abuse Material Providers in 2019, Says Chainalysis
21.4.2020
$930,000 in Bitcoin represents a 32% increase over 2018, which had in turn presented a 212% increase over the previous year
Cryptocurrencies Help Criminals of Child Sexual-Abuse Hide: UN Cybercrime Chief
29.8.2019
Even today, cryptocurrencies are generally perceived as just high-risk investments for millennials and Silicon Valley insiders. However, amid all the hype and speculation, what many are failing to notice is that most decentralized digital currencies like Bitcoin were created to “do something,” with...