European Commission Launches Digital Currency and Dark Web Consortium
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European Commission Launches Digital Currency and Dark Web Consortium

THELOGICALINDIAN - A contempo advertisement from the European Commission capacity the accumulation of a new bunch committed to preventing actionable activities angry to basic currencies and the aphotic web The accumulation consists of fifteen associates from seven European countries that will advance abstruse solutions for investigating and mitigating this types of adulterous activities

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Virtual Currencies and Darknet Markets Evolve Quickly Says Project Coordinator

European Commission Launches Digital Currency and Dark Web ConsortiumThe European Commission’s Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS) has created a bunch and project alleged ‘Titanium’ (Tools for the Investigation of Transactions in Underground Markets). According to the announcement, the Titanium Activity advisers will activate adventure a three-year, €5 actor project, that aims to barrier this criminal activity and will be subsidized by the European Union.

“Criminal and agitator activities accompanying to basic currencies and darknet markets advance bound and alter in abstruse sophistication, animation and advised targets,” capacity the Titanium Project coordinator Ross King, a chief scientist at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology.

Titanium Is Backed by European Law Enforcement and Interpol

The advertisement says that blockchain technology acclimated in basic currencies like bitcoin can acquiesce organizations and individuals to “evade acceptable analytic measures.” King believes it is “necessary” to advance forensic tools and accept the adeptness to access abstracts from “virtual bill ledgers, online forums, peer-to-peer networks of underground markets, and bedeviled devices.”

The accumulation explains the bunch is backed by European law administration agencies and Interpol. Other associates of the Titanium Project alignment accommodate Bundeskriminalamt (Germany), Coblue Cybersecurity (Netherlands), Universität Innsbruck (Austria) Interpol (International Criminal Police Organization), Ministry of the Interior (Austria), Ministry of the Interior (Spain) and the National Bureau of Investigation (Finland).

Organizers Say Titanium Tools Won’t Compromise Individual Privacy and Fundamental Rights

Titanium Project organizers say that Bitcoin does accept abounding accepted use cases. However, the bunch explains that is still acclimated by abyss and is actual accepted on the aphotic web. Furthermore, the bunch addendum the latest ransomware attack on May 12 area the attackers froze computers throughout 150 countries and accepted bitcoin payments.

King additionally capacity the bunch wants the accessible to apperceive that Titanium Project accoutrement will additionally account people’s aloofness and added absolute rights.

“The bunch will analyse acknowledged and ethical requirements and ascertain guidelines for autumn and processing data, information, and ability complex in bent investigations after compromising aborigine privacy,” King concludes in the European Commission announcement.

What do you anticipate about the European Commission’s Titanium Project? Let us apperceive in the comments below.

Images via the European Commission websites.

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