Tech victories for law enforcement
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The FBI recovers Bitcoins paid in the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, and separately, tricks organised crime suspects into using a messaging app they could monitor. Plus leading researcher Prof. Kate Crawford argues that AI is neither artificial, nor intelligent. And we hear about the chat-bot based gadget for recording your audio biography. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with BBC senior tech reporter Jane Wakefield. Produced by Jat Gill.
(Image: Stock photo of the FBI logo and person wearing a jacket with the initials. Credit: Getty Images).
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| 0:54.7 | from the technology world. I'm Rory Catlin Jones, and this week, law enforcement to criminals |
| 1:00.6 | nil. As the FBI recovers Bitcoin from a ransomware gang and traps criminals with a bogus |
| 1:07.1 | messaging app, we ask whether this signals a high-tech fightback by the law. |
| 1:12.8 | One of the leading experts on AI tells us it's neither artificial nor intelligent, but it still |
| 1:18.3 | poses a threat to a fairer society. And talking of AI, tell me your life story. We hear about a device |
| 1:26.0 | that will record your memoirs. Joining me this week is BBC's |
| 1:30.0 | senior tech reporter Jane Wakefield. Jane, what did you been up to? It's been a busy week. We had a bit |
| 1:36.1 | of an internet outage. It's one way of describing it on Tuesday. I'll be telling you all about it |
| 1:40.7 | later, but it meant my Tuesday was very busy. |
| 1:50.8 | And for me, it's been a very busy week, which is culminating me actually being in a studio for the first time. I am very jealous. |
| 1:52.3 | Yeah. Your kitchen looks more comfortable, I have to say. |
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