Global police agency Interpol said it was preparing for the risk that online immersive environments \u2013 the \u201cmetaverse\u201d \u2013 could create new kinds of cybercrime and allow existing crime to take place on a larger scale. Interpol\u2019s member countries have raised concerns about how to prepare for possible metaverse crime, Madan Oberoi, Interpol\u2019s executive director for technology and innovation, told Reuters.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of the crimes may be new to this medium, some of the existing crimes will be enabled by the medium and taken to a new level,\u201d he said. Phishing and scams could operate differently when augmented reality and virtual reality are involved, Oberoi said. Child safety issues were also a concern, he said. Virtual reality could also facilitate crime in the physical world, Oberoi said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf terror group wants to attack a physical space they may use this space to plan and simulate and launch their exercises before attacking,\u201d he said. Earlier this month, the European Union\u2019s law enforcement agency Europol said in a report that terror groups may, in the future, use virtual worlds for propaganda, recruitment and training. Users may also create virtual worlds with \u201cextremist rules,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n
If metaverse environments record users\u2019 interactions on blockchain, \u201cthis might make it possible to follow everything someone does based on one interaction with them \u2013 providing valuable information for stalkers or extortionists,\u201d Europol said.The metaverse became a tech buzzword in 2021, with companies and investors betting that virtual world environments will grow in popularity and mark a new stage in the internet\u2019s development. Facebook announced it was changing its name to Meta in October 2021 to mark its shift towards this idea.<\/p>\n
But so far, this vision shows little signs of materialising. Meta\u2019s stock value plunged on Thursday as investors voiced skepticism about spending on metaverse bets. Sales of blockchain-based assets representing virtual land and other digital possessions have also fallen sharply after a period of frenetic growth last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Global police agency Interpol said it was preparing for the risk that online immersive environments \u2013 the \u201cmetaverse\u201d \u2013 could create new kinds of cybercrime and allow existing crime to take place on a larger scale. Interpol\u2019s member countries have raised concerns about how to prepare for possible metaverse crime, Madan Oberoi, Interpol\u2019s executive director for technology and innovation, told Reuters. \u201cSome of the crimes may be new to this medium, some of the existing crimes will be enabled by the medium and taken to a new level,\u201d he said. Phishing and scams could operate differently when augmented reality and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}