The company works with bitcoin exchanges and payment processes and provides key evidence to law enforcement agencies in both Europe and the United States for investigations that involve bitcoin transactions.
IWF claims to have identified more than 68,000 URLs containing child sexual abuse images although it’s not clear how they have identified individual bitcoin addresses.
“Over the past few years, we have seen an increasing amount of Bitcoin activity connected to purchasing child sexual abuse material online,” IWF Chief Executive Officer Susie Hargreaves said in a statement. “Our new partnership with Elliptic is imperative to helping us tackle this criminal use of Bitcoin.”
“We have a profound respect for the critical and difficult work that IWF undertakes,” Elliptic Chief Executive Officer and Founder Dr. James Smith added. “We are proud to take a leadership role in combating Bitcoin’s use to facilitate these terrible crimes. In a world’s first, Elliptic’s clients can now automatically monitor all transactions for any connection to proceeds of child sex abuse.”
http://siliconangle.com/blog/2016/07/06/bitcoin-surveillance-startup-elliptic-signs-deal-with-iwf-to-track-child-porn-buyers/
