Sentences with phrase «illicit use»

Would that help prevent illicit use of the signals — and I don't mean just the use without permission, but the use in actual unlawful communications activity such as mentioned above?

Sue pharmaceutical opioid distributors for violating «their duty by selling large amounts of painkillers that were then diverted for illicit uses, helping to contribute to the opioid epidemic.»

Levin is the cofounder of Chainalysis, a startup that tracks virtual currency movement and investigates illicit use.

After history's biggest Coincheck hack, the FSA stepped up its efforts to investigate Bitcoin exchanges, as well as Bitcoin's illicit use in money laundering transactions.

Aimed to counter illicit uses of cryptocurrencies, the new regulations were first set in law when the Australian Senate approved the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Amendment Bill 2017 in early December 2017.

Although the agency has yet to put out a concrete policy for implementation, the meeting nonetheless signals growing attention from worldwide regulators over illicit uses of cryptocurrency that could undermine the global financial system.

By comparison, in states where the drug did become legal for medical use, the rate of illicit use went from 5.55 percent to 9.15 percent.

Although they wonder about conventional military defense, people also worry about strategies to resist illicit uses of more modern weapons, including anthrax and smallpox.

For some people unfamiliar with the concept of homonyms, the use of «gravity wave» in fluid mechanics renders illicit its use to describe gravitational radiation.

Researchers also noted that little is known about the efficacy and safety of off - label use of naloxone for treating overdoses related to newly emerging illicit uses of more powerful opioids such as fentanyl and fentanyl derivatives.

«Although Ritalin's effectiveness in treating ADHD is well - documented, few studies have looked at the drug's effect on non-prescribed illicit use,» says Panayotis (Peter) Thanos, PhD, senior research scientist at RIA.

I'm sure there will be many who use this device to experiment with indoor, urban food growing — but at risk of dredging up the marijuana as a gateway (to farming) debate once more — there are, of course, potential illicit uses too.

The latest legal effort comes amid rising illicit use of cryptocurrencies in money - laundering, crime and tax avoidance, Thailand's deputy prime minister, Wissanu Krea - ngam, was quoted as saying

U.S. lawmakers are eyeing the formation of a new task force to combat the use of cryptocurrency in financing terrorism and other illicit uses.

While the KCS did not disclose whether it is taking any legal actions currently against these businesses, it said it will continue the effort in investigating on similar activities as well as illicit use of cryptocurrency in money laundering and smuggling illegal goods such as drugs.

This month Indian government reaffirmed its commitment to eliminate illicit use of cryptocurrencies.

Further suggesting that such information might be gathered covertly, the filing adds: «Having information on legal bitcoin operators helps the AML Threat Score learn their behavior, and detect changes in their behavior that may signal new illicit use (without explicit knowledge of the operator).»

Bitcoin's meteoric rise has captured the attention of the White House, according to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, who cited growing concern about illicit use.

And even though he identifies as a blockchain advocate, in interview, he outlined multiple examples of how state actors are already experimenting with the technology for illicit uses, in the process painting a vivid picture of what could go wrong.

Aimed to counter illicit uses of cryptocurrencies, the announcement comes after the Australian Senate approved the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Amendment Bill 2017 on Wednesday.

While there was discussion of illicit use of Bitcoin there was also considerable discussion of the potential economic benefit of the currency.

A spokesperson for PayPal told Bloomberg that the company is «intensely focused on combatting and preventing the illicit use of our services» and working with law enforcement to stop illegal activity.

«PayPal is intensely focused on combatting and preventing the illicit use of our services,» the company said in a statement to Fortune.

Drones have proliferated in the region and around the world, but they're not always put to illicit uses.

In states that never legalized medical marijuana, the average prevalence of illicit use was 4.54 percent in 1991 and 1992, rising to 6.70 percent in 2012 and 2013.

Illicit use was generally defined as illegal use of marijuana without a prescription at least 12 times during the past year.

That bill would, among other things, help establish a system of «rewards for information leading to convictions related to terrorist use of digital currencies,» and «a FinTech Leadership in Innovation Program to encourage the development of tools and programs to combat terrorist and illicit use of digital currencies.»

While there was significant mention of the illicit use of Bitcoin, the potential economic benefit of Bitcoin seems to have won out.

They understood that there are some illicit uses [of cryptocurrency]-- like with all new technologies — but they generally thought cryptocurrency was really innovative and great.

There was a taskforce that was created by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and Reuters, to look at the illicit use of cryptocurrency, and I was asked to be on that taskforce.»

Law enforcement officials may face particular challenges when investigating the illicit use of virtual currency.

Central banks and governments have not remotely been able to control the illicit use of fiat currency and there is no evidence that this would be worse with Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency.

His main point is to focus upon paragraph 15 of Humanae Vitae (HV) which states «the Church does not consider at all illicit the use of those therapeutic means necessary to cure bodily diseases, even if a foreseeable impediment to procreation should result there from — provided such impediment is not directly intended.»

«For too long, employers have engaged with the sex industry without due regard for the impact on female employees, and have failed to prevent the illicit use of the sex industry by employees in a work context.

During this period, universities and other research institutions were facing increasing demands to comply with newly created security requirements to prevent theft or illicit use of any chemical, radiological, or biological agents of national security and / or public health concern.

Illicit use of the Internet is also rising (see Graph).

When Germany banned its illicit use in 2009, the chemically similar but unregulated JWH - 073 showed up in Spice packets within weeks.

This is not surprising, however, as hallucinogen - involved trauma is very rare under the haphazard conditions of illicit use — which we nonetheless caution against — and it is virtually unheard of within supervised research settings.

Additionally, we're giving small businesses the opportunity to have alternatives to the illicit use of Spotify.

Law enforcement officials may face particular challenges when investigating the illicit use of virtual currency.

The CEO of Facebook broke his long silence on Wednesday, five days after a huge scandal broke about political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica and its illicit use of Facebook user data.

Last, the study notes the need to prevent the illicit use of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to get around economic sanctions imposed by the United States or other nations.

It should go without saying that any study related to the dark web or illicit use of the Bitcoin network needs to be taken with a grain of salt because avoiding detection is the whole reason for a criminal to use these sorts of platforms in the first place.

This comes amidst concerns over the illicit use of cryptocurrencies in terrorism financing activities and money laundering activities.

Mr. Rogoff claimed that bitcoin offers little utility outside of illicit uses, claiming «if you take away the possibility of money laundering and tax evasion, its actual uses as a transaction vehicle are very small.»

Illicit uses for Bitcoin include its being used as a means of shuffling money around the