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German artists brilliantly honeypot ‘Nazis’ into exposing themselves and their friends

Dec06
by on December 6, 2018 at 10:02 am
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In an elaborate scheme, the German political art collective Center for Political Beauty (ZPS) tricked thousands of potential far-right supporters to unknowingly reveal themselves. Earlier this week ZPS set up a site where people could identify far-right demonstrators in exchange for money. The site sparked a huge controversy in Germany, not only because it evoked memories of the country’s past security services, but also because many of the images of demonstrators were supposedly uploaded without permission.  The “Special Commission Chemnitz” campaign promised people cash to name participants of a violent anti-immigrant protest in the German city of Chemnitz earlier this year. Rewards…

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Only 2% of Japan’s 340,000 money laundering cases involve cryptocurrency

Dec06
by on December 6, 2018 at 9:30 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Japan’s efforts to regulate the cryptocurrency industry might have come a little later than needed, as the country has seen nearly 6,000 cases of money laundering involving cryptocurrency so far in 2018. According to an official police document, there have been nearly 6,000 cases of cryptocurrency-based money laundering reported to the Japanese police between January and October of this year, the Japan Times reports. This is a dramatic increase over the 669 cases that were reported in the last nine months of 2017. All that said, it’s important to recognize that Japan has been leading the way when it comes…

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Huawei CFO arrested for violating US trade sanctions

Dec06
by on December 6, 2018 at 7:55 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia


The CFO of Chinese telecom giant Huawei, Meng Wanzhou, was arrested in Canada on Saturday for allegedly violating US trade sanctions against Iran, reports The Globe and Mail. Wanzhou, who is also the daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, was arrested in Vancouver over the weekend when she was transferring flights in Canada. She now faces extradition to the US, as, according to Huawei, she’s been chared in the Eastern District of New York. The company noted that it’d been provided with little information on the specifics of the charges, and that its is “not aware of any wrongdoing by…

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