TECH

Interpol in the metaverse era

At the Interpol 90th General Assembly meeting in New Delhi, the world police organization presented the first metaverse, designed specifically for law enforcement agencies across the world.

This metaverse allows registered users to experience a virtual replica of Interpol's General Secretariat headquarters in Lyon, France. It provides interaction with other employees of the organization and also allows you to do immersive training in several areas.

Interpol's own secure cloud became the foundation for the metaverse, and virtual reality headsets can be used to connect to the new service. In addition, Interpol announced the creation of a metaverse expert group, which will address security.

In general, metaverses can give the police new tools for investigating crimes, possibility of remote work, training, etc.

At the same time, the source notes that attackers are already using the metaverse to their advantage because Interpol and the biggest tech companies are working to combat this.

Note that as the number of users in the metaverses grows, the list of possible crimes will only expand. It already includes social engineering scams, extremism and various forms of disinformation, and in the future the list could be replenished with data theft, money laundering, extortion, sexual assault, including against children and the like.

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