Kid gets 15y for ISIS Bitcoin, Adults get Facialed at Download

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Mon Jun 15 10:43:23 PDT 2015


http://www.pcworld.com/article/2935192/virginia-teen-pleads-guilty-to-giving-islamic-state-help-on-bitcoin.html

Speculation about whether the Islamic State (IS) group is using
bitcoin intensified Thursday in the U.S. when government officials
said a Virginia teenager admitted to providing the organization with
advice on the virtual currency.

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/download-festival-is-a-police-trial-ground-for-facial-recognition

This weekend’s Download Festival will be subjected to strategic facial
recognition technology by Leicestershire Police, making those
100,000-plus attendees the first music fans to ever be monitored to
this extent at a UK music festival.




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