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Google is planning on searching for drug cartels and human traffickers? If you had anything you wanted to say to Sergey and Larry, now would probably be a good time to do it. :eek:

Drug cartels, money launderers and human traffickers run their sophisticated operations online - and Google Ideas, Google Inc.'s think tank, is working with the Council on Foreign Relations and other organizations to look for ways to use technology to disrupt international crime. Officials from Google and groups that combat illicit networks will meet Tuesday and Wednesday in Westlake Village, Calif., to develop strategies for fighting global crime.
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Not a bad idea I guess, but we could also just track and follow the billions in cash that HSBC allowed to be moved around over the last few years.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-...ndering-by-iran-drug-cartels-probe-shows.html

The Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations said London-based HSBC (HBC) failed to review thousands of suspicious transactions and properly vet clients over the past decade.

Among other issues, the report notes that in 2007 and 2008, HSBC's Mexico unit shipped $7 billion in cash to the bank's U.S. affiliate, a volume of shipments that law enforcement officials said could reach that size "only if they included illegal drug proceeds."
 
And so it begins... Google working with the Council on Foreign Relations. How... cozy.
 
If there is one thing I know about the Sinaloa or Juarez cartel is you don't fuck with them, period. I'm not gonna go on a rant about this, but I will say they have the money, resources, and conviction to go out of their way to kill people simply because they feel a nuisance. Hope Google knows what they're doing.
 
pgaster said:
Not a bad idea I guess, but we could also just track and follow the billions in cash that HSBC allowed to be moved around over the last few years.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-...ndering-by-iran-drug-cartels-probe-shows.html

The Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations said London-based HSBC (HBC) failed to review thousands of suspicious transactions and properly vet clients over the past decade.

Among other issues, the report notes that in 2007 and 2008, HSBC's Mexico unit shipped $7 billion in cash to the bank's U.S. affiliate, a volume of shipments that law enforcement officials said could reach that size "only if they included illegal drug proceeds."
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Wells Fargo and Bank of America also financed them "unwittingly".

I put a quote around unwittingly because you just don't see millions of dollars coming in and out of a bank without raising suspicion or at least seeing who's doing it. Last week BOA said they were ignorant about it because the cartels did a good job covering their tracks. It's a sad state of affair if some drug lords in South America and Mexico know about about banks than BOA employees.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/09/los-zetas-laundered-money-bank-america_n_1658943.html

or if you prefer a conservative network:

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/ne...funneled-money-through-bank-america-fbi-says/

and the Wells Fargo incident from 2010:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-...rtels-admitted-in-wells-fargo-s-u-s-deal.html
 
unless they are really really really sure google can protect themselves, I don think this is something you should easily disclose to the public
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiK9ht9HwdA

UN crime chief says drug money flowed into banks
Jan 25, 2009
(Reuters) - The United Nations' crime and drug watchdog has indications that money made in illicit drug trade has been used to keep banks afloat in the global financial crisis, its head was quoted as saying on Sunday.

Vienna-based UNODC Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa said in an interview released by Austrian weekly Profil that drug money often became the only available capital when the crisis spiralled out of control last year.

"In many instances, drug money is currently the only liquid investment capital," Costa was quoted as saying by Profil. "In the second half of 2008, liquidity was the banking system's main problem and hence liquid capital became an important factor."

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime had found evidence that "interbank loans were funded by money that originated from drug trade and other illegal activities," Costa was quoted as saying. There were "signs that some banks were rescued in that way."
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I don't see how this could have any negative effects, leaks, oor damages to Google's credibility.
 
Officials from Google and groups that combat illicit networks will meet Tuesday and Wednesday in Westlake Village, Calif., to develop strategies for fighting global crime.
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Why would they even say that? It's like that running joke on Top Gear. "We now go to our top secret Anti-Crime facility, located at 321 Google street, office 32 on floor 3 of building J, just off the A4 in Westlake Village, Calif. If you've reached the interstate, you've gone to far." :p
 
While I like the idea, it scares me to think how this technology could be used to track people doing non-illegal tings.
 
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