Category Archives: English – posts in English on this blog

The data broker for ‘the good’ | Friedrich Lindenberg’s open sanctions database | AML, CFT, sanctions, PEPs

You do not matter if you are not included in a database and if you are not profiled. That’s the new world. It is not only adtech companies that are creating private population registers. Journalists pretending they are promoting a … Lees verder

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The Commission’s AML fantasies about lawyers | SNRA

The Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) has criticised the supranational risk assessment of the risk of money laundering and terrorist financing (SNRA) released by the European Commission [1]. Read the CCBE’s comments [2]. The organisation quotes … Lees verder

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Investigations by Cracked Labs on the private population register of an adtech company | the surveillance society is already there

The world is rapidly evolving into a surveillance society where every citizen is monitored up to the second in all their activities, with large-scale experiments in behavioural influence. One of the organisations investigating this phenomenon is Cracked Labs. Cracked Labs: … Lees verder

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European financial surveillance project is nearing completion | TRACE, AML toolkit for LEAs

In April 2023 I wrote about the TRACE project, funded by the European Commission, that creates artificial intelligence tools for law enforcement agencies (‘LEAs’). The project is nearing its end. AMLA and the AML toolkit The tools will play an … Lees verder

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Dutch central bank is preparing for a financial surveillance society | ChatDNB

It is fascinating what international financial policymakers are doing, without any public discussion. Large-scale analysis of financial transactions by DNB Last year, top central bank executive Steven Maijoor (De Nederlandsche Bank, ‘DNB’, the Netherlands) already revealed that DNB is working … Lees verder

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Policy brief by Finance Watch on the digital euro

Finance Watch, a non-profit association dedicated to reforming finance in the interest of citizens, in October 2023 published a policy brief (pdf) on the digital euro. The introduction in their press release: In this policy brief, Finance Watch argues that … Lees verder

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Working paper on bank directors that become supervisors | further investigation desirable into top financial supervision officials

In December 2023 the working paper The Reverse Revolving Door in the Supervision of European Banks was published [1]. The Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH), where two of the authors of the paper work, in March published the press … Lees verder

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Regulating the Synthetic Society: Generative AI, Legal Questions and Societal Challenges | Bart van der Sloot

It looks interesting, this new publication by Bart van der Sloot: Regulating the Synthetic Society: Generative AI, Legal Questions and Societal Challenges (page Bloomsbury Collections). It can be downloaded from this page. Abstract: Experts predict that in 5 years’ time, … Lees verder

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Predictive policing in AI Act | Fair Trials – artificial intelligence in AML/CFT

Fair Trials in December 2023 wrote Partial ban on ‘predictive’ policing and crime prediction systems included in final EU AI Act. The NGO is worried about the exemptions in the Act and is waiting for the final text: The actual … Lees verder

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“Predictive Policing in France: Against opacity and discrimination, the need for a ban” | La Quadrature | AI in AML/CFT

The French NGO La Quadrature du Net after several months of investigation (as part of a European initiative coordinated by British NGO Fair Trials [*]) has released a report (pdf) on the state of predictive policing in France. Read their … Lees verder

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