#TBOT 15: Justice for victims of undercover cops, US & UK’s AI Plan, Attack on Crypto Privacy, The New FreeNet Has One Privacy Problem

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Here are this week’s stories:

Dating an Undercover? SpyCops Victim Tells All: Environmental activist Kate Wilson fell in love with an undercover cop who was investigating her during their two years together. Almost a decade later, she’s breaking her anonymity to discuss her win against the Met UK police.

US & UK’s AI Plan: With US President Trump’s visit to the UK, the Tech Prosperity deal was hurried through. New data centers, a supercomputer, and I think they just copied China’s plan. Find out why.

Crypto Privacy Makes You Suspect: Hakeem reviews new FinCEN rules which may make basic crypto privacy suspicious, and the upcoming CLARITY Act which forces any mixing services or exchanges to register with the government.

The New Freenet: Freenet is a fully decentralized peer-to-peer network that allows for distributed computing. It attempts to tackle the reputation problem with ghost keys. But there’s one big problem.

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