Digital Currency Business E-Gold Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering and Illegal Money Transmitting Charges E-Gold Ltd. (E-Gold), an Internet-based digital currency business, and its three principal directors and owners, pleaded guilty to criminal charges relating to money laundering and the operation of an illegal money transmitting business, Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich for the [...]
The BBC reports that “Gordon Brown has called for the age that teenagers are prosecuted for carrying knives to be lowered from 18 to 16 in the wake of a rise in attacks.” I don’t understand. This implies that the way the laws are currently setup, a person can legally carry a knife till they [...]
Judge rules defendant can’t be forced to divulge PGP passphrase A federal judge in Vermont has ruled that prosecutors can’t force a criminal defendant accused of having illegal images on his hard drive to divulge his PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) passphrase. U.S. Magistrate Judge Jerome Niedermeier ruled that a man charged with transporting child pornography [...]