Interpol launches first-ever metaverse
🔆Interpol launches first-ever metaverse
✅ Interpol unveiled the first-ever ‘metaverse’ specifically designed for law enforcement worldwide, at the 90th General Assembly in Delhi.
Key Highlights:
✅WEF: The World Economic Forum has partnered with Interpol on Meta.
✅Virtual tour: It allows the registered users to take a virtual tour of its general secretariat headquarters in France’s Lyon.
Interact with other officers via their avatars
✅Take training courses in forensic investigation and other policing skills, it said.
✅Secure cloud: The facility is provided through the global police organization’s secure cloud.
✅Creation of an expert group on the metaverse: To represent the concerns of law enforcement on the global stage
Ensure that the new virtual world is secure by design.
✅Challenges for metaverse:
Social engineering scams
Violent extremism
Misinformation
List of possible crimes likely to expand:
✅Crimes against children
Data theft
✅Money laundering
✅Financial fraud
✅Counterfeiting
✅Ransomware
✅Phishing
✅Sexual assault and harassment.
✅Way forward:
Work with stakeholders: To shape the necessary governance frameworks and cut off future criminal markets before they are fully formed.
Metaverse:
✅It is an extension of our real world into the digital realm providing an immersive multi-user experience for anyone accessing it around the globe.
✅Accessing this virtual world requires the Internet and digital devices.
✅The technology behind this is called Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR).
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