🔆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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