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    Meta maps way to 'kill' online deception campaigns

    AFP, Published on 17/03/2023

    » SAN FRANCISCO: Meta on Thursday released a framework for exposing and combating malicious online campaigns from election lies to terrorist recruitment.

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    AI-aided hope on the horizon

    Life, James Hein, Published on 13/02/2019

    » Despite some of my criticisms in the past there are some excellent examples of emerging artificial intelligence technologies. I've mentioned some of these from the medical world in earlier articles but a new one caught my eye this week, figuring out in which hotel a picture was taken. No, not to help people remember where holiday snaps were taken but to track down human trafficking where pics of women are taken to sell them for sex. The three groups behind this identification technology are from George Washington University, Temple University and Adobe, all in the US. Like many AI systems a large amount of source data is used and to help with this more than a million images have been collected from 50,000 hotels worldwide. Using all the room elements in backgrounds a neural network is being trained to identify a hotel chain and then a location.

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    Report wildlife trafficking through app

    Life, AKIN, Published on 27/07/2016

    » Wildlife trafficking happens across the world. But to stop the illegal trade of animals and protect them can be complicated -- one of the reasons is that sometimes general and protected species can be indistinguishable.

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    Ashley Madison hackers vow more attacks: report

    AFP, Published on 22/08/2015

    » WASHINGTON - The hacking group behind the Ashley Madison breach compared the affair-seeking website to "a drug dealer abusing addicts" in an email exchange threatening to carry out more attacks.

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    Philippines' top court upholds 'cyber libel' law

    AFP, Published on 18/02/2014

    » The Philippines' top court ruled on Tuesday that a cybercrime law penalising online libel is constitutional, disappointing critics who argue it could curb Internet freedom in one of Asia's most freewheeling democracies.

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    Girls' education gets Intel boost

    Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 27/03/2013

    » Removing barriers in girls' education _ the old demons such as early and forced marriage, domestic slavery, sex trafficking, gender violence and discrimination _ means not only a better life for girls, but a safer, healthier, and more prosperous world for all.

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    A flood of ideas

    Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 21/11/2012

    » Crisis can always be turned into opportunity. Saying this, Thailand has experienced no greater crisis in recent times than last year's flood. Grave as the damage was, it did inspire and motivate a group of second year students from King Mongkut University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) to develop Flood Finder, a mobile application that helps users report flood conditions and stay informed of water levels.

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    Britain, US warn over Internet freedom at cyber talks

    AFP, Published on 01/11/2011

    » Britain and the United States appealed Tuesday for Internet freedom at a global conference designed to set up the "rules of the road" for cyberspace, although critics accused Western powers of hypocrisy.

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    Escaping from oppression

    Life, Published on 23/09/2011

    » Actor, producer and Bollywood luminary Anil Kapoor has partnered with the CNN Freedom Project to expose one region's secret tradition of trafficking in Trapped by Tradition: A CNN Freedom Project Documentary.

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    Europol says internet main tool for organised crime

    AFP, Published on 04/05/2011

    » The Internet has become a major tool in European organised crime, which uses it for drugs and human trafficking and money laundering as well as cybercrime, Europol's top official said Wednesday.

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