The creation of the FBI's "virtual asset exploitation" unit comes after the Justice Department's largest-ever financial seizure earlier this month. It charged a married New York couple with allegedly laundering bitcoins now valued at over $4.5 billion that were stolen in the 2016 hack of the digital currency exchange Bitfinex.
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Private contractor ID.me said it will drop the facial recognition requirement in the identity-verification software used by several U.S. states and federal agencies, after backlash over the technology's privacy concerns grew.
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To hold otherwise would require police officers to ‘identify themselves as [such] when they investigate criminal activity,’ thus rendering ‘virtually all undercover work’ unconstitutional,” the court said
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Corporate defense lawyers support federal rule changes said to help prevent 'junk' scientific testimony
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Navient Corp. committed Thursday to canceling $1.7 billion in private student loans for 66,000 borrowers across the country, over lending practices and payment plans said to be abusive and predatory.
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A federal judge rejected OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma's bankruptcy settlement of thousands of lawsuits over the opioid epidemic Thursday because of a provision that would protect members of the Sackler family from facing litigation of their own.
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A three judge panel of the Fifth Circuit upheld the federal bump stock ban.
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In today’s clogged court dockets, the emphasis is on speed and efficiency, critics of the system point out. That has generated what some call a “trial penalty,” in which the threat of a longer sentence is held over a defendant who wants to plead not guilty.
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These warrants are controversial because peoples' records can be accessed who had nothing to do with a crime.
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There are rules to Bitcoin - make sure you know them if you are getting involved.
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