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AI uses bitcoin trail to find and help sex-trafficking victims

24 August 2017

Thousands of escorts advertise on websites like Backpage, not always by choice. Machine learning can now identify ads posted by traffickers, and locate them
Dark web crackdown as two biggest markets are taken offline

Dark web crackdown as two biggest markets are taken offline

20 July 2017

The police sting hit two markets, AlphaBay and Hansa, that were responsible for the trading of over 350, 000 illicit goods such as drugs, firearms and cybercrime malware

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