Interpol Sets Up its Own Global Police Metaverse
TECH DIGEST- Interpol’s Executive Director of Technology and Innovation, Madan Oberoi, stated that “not all acts that are criminalized” offline “are considered crimes when committed in the virtual world.” Oberoi stressed the importance of cutting off “future criminal markets before they are fully formed.”
Interpol has presented the first metaverse for law enforcement. Because some crimes committed in the physical world are not yet regulated in the virtual world, the organization determines that criminals are already taking advantage of the relative anarchy.
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Interpol announced the platform’s introduction on Thursday during its 90th General Assembly in New Delhi. The international police body explained in a statement published on its website that users of the new metaverse can take a tour of a virtual re-creation of the Interpol General Secretariat headquarters in Lyon, France, interact with other officers, and take training courses in forensic investigation, among other policing capabilities.
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The Metaverse is based on the concept of the internet growing into a single, immersive virtual realm, accessible to users via virtual or altered reality headsets.
Several firms, like Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, which has been creating its own platform dubbed Horizon Worlds, have already sought to construct their own version of this online world.
“Criminals are already starting to exploit the Metaverse,” Interpol warned in Thursday’s statement. The organization cooperates with the World Economic Forum, Meta and Microsoft in preparing to tackle crime in the newly emerging spaces.
Interpol says that as the number of Metaverse users grows, so too will the list of possible crimes, which will potentially include violations such as data theft, money laundering, financial fraud, counterfeiting, ransomware, phishing and even sexual assault and harassment.
