Wednesday, 16 August 2017

Follow the Bitcoin to find victims of human trafficking

(NYU Tandon School of Engineering) A team of university researchers has devised the first automated techniques to identify ads potentially tied to human trafficking rings and link them to public information from Bitcoin -- the primary payment method for online sex ads. They found they could identify groups of ads with a common author. They then tested an automated system that utilizes publicly available information from the Bitcoin mempool and blockchain to find connections between ads.

from EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science http://ift.tt/2uIcGUw

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