New Technologies, New Risks? : Innovation and Countering Terrorist Financing.
The rise of information and communication technologies in the past decades has facilitated major economic development. It has expanded access to financial resources to empower the poor. It has even given tools to government to detect and monitor criminal activity. Computers systems have been develop...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank,
2009.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | The rise of information and communication technologies in the past decades has facilitated major economic development. It has expanded access to financial resources to empower the poor. It has even given tools to government to detect and monitor criminal activity. Computers systems have been developed that can automatically flag and react to suspicious transactions, allowing law enforcement to better protect the market from abuses from petty fraud to terrorist activity. In sum, these new technologies offer great opportunities to improve and protect the lives of people everywhere. Paradoxically. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (50 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780821381779 0821381776 661242222X 9786612422225 1282422227 9781282422223 |