Team Interpol: Metaverse Police Interpol this week unveiled what it has called a Metaverse for police around the world while signalling a lawless virtual universe will not be tolerated. The Interpol Metaverse is "fully operational" and available from the international police force's cloud service, we're told. To us, it seems to be a shared virtual reality …
My brain hurst at the amount of nonsense, but since I am having a good coffee, I will allow myself to experience "optimism" today.
=begin optimism
Fraudsters are moving scams to the metaverse? Murder in the metaverse? People arguing about who gets to rule the metaverse? Ads in the metaverse?
Does this mean criminals, law enforcement, marketing campaigns and politicians will all bugger off in the metaverse and leave the rest to us boring people who are content with quiet boring days?
I might start having daydreams of going to work at Meta to help make this happen...
=end optimism
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Does this mean criminals, law enforcement, marketing campaigns and politicians will all bugger off in the metaverse
was exactly my analysis too. I'm not sure about criminals, but for the rest may-be should we encourage them, and even scare them with some giant cyber-goat that's going to eat the Metaverse and they have to save it ? (yes I know it was the other way round)
World Economic Forum, Microsoft, Meta, and others to govern the Metaverse.
yes yes, please do. You see, it's the future of humanity, so please take some advance and start ruling us there. We'll come right after you
A massively multiplayer online virtual reality game with few, if any, rules. Then law enforcement types might realise that they can largely leave it alone.
If someone shows me a gun and demands that I march to the nearest ATM in the real world then I'm likely to comply. Same thing in the (a) metaverse? Not so much.
Obviously it has all of the same problems as the non-metaverse internet (including potential for extortion etc), but, as far as Plod is concerned, not really something to be viewed as a separate entity requiring separate resources, etc.
Half way through Neal Stephenson's "REAMDE" and that is pretty much the plot[1] - and things do get pretty hairy IRL because of it!
As always, Life imitates Art
[1] Apologies if that was a spoiler, but it is a huge book and there lots more to enjoy in it.
If you read some of my earlier posts, I was saying that if they can get their hands on people's data, they will come after it. And start exercising power and control over it....
And of course they will be morality policing going on. Policing things that don't really cause people harm, or when there is only a very weak link to real-world physical harm.
See, it's all about dominance, a human instinct. And some individuals especially crave power, they have to be on top at all times.
I mentioned that a couple of days ago regarding GitHub Copilot, where the authorities could have access to every keystroke.
Now look what happened here and it arrived even faster than expected.
My God, what an Orwellian nightmare the Internet has enabled.
Hopefully the pendulum will swing back from collectivistic media such as the Internet, back to us doing more individualistic things instead. Where such surveillance cannot take place*. Making things, being creative, etc...
Just as when we had the personal computer revolution, because people were sick and tired of the mainframe and the centralised control it enabled. So we might start doing some things offline, decades from now, as the Internet gets a bad reputation from all this surveillance and control?
* = unless by that time they put cameras in our homes to "keep us safe", with automated AI monitoring. Disabling the cameras will be illegal. They will say that they must be on because they "eliminate the spaces where abuse can occur". And it will be done "for the children" too. Or to "protect women from harassment".
As they say the medium is the message and because we all use the Internet, a medium that makes mass surveillance and automated policing so easy, we naturally end up with a surveillance society in the end. And it's not just authorities doing the spying, it's enabling peer surveillance as well.
In the past, popular media, such as radio, television and books, did not enable such surveillance, and we had much more freedom. We never had to watch for the virtual policeman looking over our shoulder, examining our every searches, as we can do now. It's like having a book where every turn of the page is spied on.
"In order for police to understand the Metaverse, we need to experience it.”
That is as may certainly be, however it will always remain as a relatively small part of greater bigger pictured domains where and when, for one to lead future unfolding events with experience in an expansive understanding of them and the Metaverse, one needs to remotely access and be able to enable their virtual realisation for practical command and pragmatic control of metadata physicalised assets in support infrastructures/administering exoskeletons ..... with simply complex base requirements ......seeding almighty creative core source feeds and needs.
And, to neither imagine nor realise such is the natural comfortable realm of Secret IntelAIgent Services and Special Forces has one severely disadvantaged by them with one's worlds stuck in the past with a present hoping for a change which status quo elements are unable to supply with leadership and would actively try to resist being revealed are nevertheless freely available provided by A.N.Others ...... thus making such present home teams the spiteful enemy to be destroyed with conflicts beyond their ken and powers of executive command and elitist control.
Which sector[s] do you think would be prime premier ground-breaking and Earth-shattering pioneers in that very particular and admittedly surely quite peculiar discipline ...... public, private, pirate, alien ..... with precious little chance and no great white hot hope of it being more likely an amalgam of such aspiring/inspiring/conspiring interests ‽
The only real question to answer is which sector realises their most profitable successful role is one of lead in a practically invisible and virtually anonymous and autonomous support of such pioneers/enterprises.
Commentards are having fun with that joke, but the relative obscurity of metaverse interactions leads to interesting criminal opportunities for virtual meetings and planning.
Here's an article from a decade or so ago about the potential for terrorist suspects meeting in MMOs to discuss and plan incidents, it was part of the Snowden leaks:
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/10/world/spies-dragnet-reaches-a-playing-field-of-elves-and-trolls.html
They even managed to achieve some limited success in stopping a credit card ring.
> By the end of 2008, according to one document, the British spy agency, known as GCHQ, had set up its “first operational deployment into Second Life” and had helped the police in London in cracking down on a crime ring that had moved into virtual worlds to sell stolen credit card information
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