The International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) has built a virtual reality space where its officers can collaborate remotely and train on the metaverse.
The
goal is to equip the officers with expertise in the metaverse, giving
them a sense of potential crimes and how they could be policed.
- While the metaverse is still a nascent technology, there have been several criminal cases in the various virtual worlds.
- Meta’s
Horizon Worlds has seen cases of sexual assault for female avatars,
despite the platform being limited to the U.S. and Canada.
- Interpol acknowledges that metaverse crimes are a contentious issue.
- Interpol reportedly struggles to decide whether some virtual crimes fall under current laws.
- Metaverse platforms have been urged to police their spaces.
- Meta, the Facebook parent, has reportedly no intentions to police its Horizon Worlds or other platforms.
- A corporate accountability group from San Francisco, Ekō, advocates stricter metaverse policing.
