‘Deepfake’ crimes on the rise, Europol warns


Criminals could also use deepfake technology to coerce people online, including exploiting children for underaged sex, make non-consensual pornography and falsify or manipulate electronic evidence in judicial investigations. — 123rf.com

THE HAGUE: The use of deepfake technology is gaining ground in the criminal underworld and should be targeted as a priority, Europe’s policing agency warned on April 28.

The ability to make people say or do things online that they never did – or to create entirely new personas – could be used to devastating effect in the wrong hands, Europol said.

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