Kids groomed for homicide by video video games, Europol warns  – POLITICO

“Parents blame themselves in a lot of cases. They do not understand how it is possible,” she stated. “The problem is you don’t have access to everything your child does and you respect also the privacy of your children. But as a parent, you need to talk about the dangers of the internet.”

Drugs and AI are additionally an issue

Among the brand new felony strategies crossing Europol’s desks, two stand out: The use of so-called narco-submarines to smuggle medicine like cocaine from South America into the EU and the expansion in AI expertise fueling an explosion in on-line fraud that enforcement companies are just about powerless to cease. 

Instead of transport cocaine into the ports of Hamburg, Rotterdam and Antwerp by containers, criminals have diversified their strategies, De Bolle stated. One key route is to sail semi-submersible vessels from South America to Europe’s North Atlantic coast, the place speedboats meet them and offload the unlawful cargo through Portugal, in response to Europol’s data. 

While Europe now could be “overflooded with drugs,” felony organizations could make more cash, extra simply by on-line fraud, she stated. “Artificial intelligence is a multiplier for crime,” she stated. “Everything is done a thousand times more and faster. The abuse of artificial intelligence lies in phishing emails — you do not recognize it very easily with phishing emails anymore because the language is correct.” 

She stated “romance fraud” can be “booming,” as “people look for love, also online.”

“With deepfakes and with voice automation systems, it’s very difficult for a law enforcement authority to recognise that from a genuine picture. The technology is not there yet to [tell] the difference,” De Bolle added. 

De Bolle stated Europol wanted to have the ability to entry encrypted telephone messages with a decide’s authorization to disrupt these felony networks. “When a judge decides that we need to have access to data, the online providers should be forced to give us access to this encrypted communication,” she stated.

Otherwise, “we will be blind and then we cannot do our job.”