INTERPOL, partner of LIBRe Foundation, is part of an international consortium of 15 members which has initiated a new project to prevent criminals from using to avoid law detection, while at the same time respecting the privacy rights of legitimate users.
The consortium is undertaking a three-year, EUR5 million project funded by the European Union aimed at developing technical solutions for investigating and mitigating crime and terrorism involving virtual currencies and underground market transactions.
As part of the project called TITANIUM (Tools for the Investigation of Transactions in Underground Markets), the researchers plan to test and validate their tools and services on the premises of partner LEAs to assess the effectiveness and overall impact of the project results.
Continue to the full text of INTERPOL’s press release here.
The blockchain technology is being discussed in the article by Ivo Emanuilov ‘Taking Back Control Of Our Data’: Block(chain)ing Privacy, published in the online platform LIBRe Stories.