Blockchain Technology to Help Fight Slavery in the Fishing Industry
A U.K. food co-op is testing blockchain technology to verify that fish providers are not using slave labor, according to The Guardian. The seafood industry is notorious for human rights abuses and illegal fishing. Tesco, the U.K.’s largest supermarket, has stopped using a certain fish provider over the need to ensure it was using sustainable tuna. The blockchain ledger tracks the origins of fish, allowing anyone to see where the fish was caught, processed and sold. It does not stop illegal fishing on its own, but it provides anyone the ability to track the fish through the supply chain.....
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The U.K.’s former Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday that the blockchain can be used to fight government corruption and that he is ‘excited’ about the potential that the technology presents. Speaking at the opening of FinTech startup Blockchain’s new London offices, Cameron said that what ‘most excites me is the potential that your technology has to fight corruption and to deal with failures of governance and governments and the rule of law all over the world,’ reports Business Insider. Talking about countries where so many people are trapped in poverty with corrupt and failed....
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