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METAVERSE NUANCES

• Cases of assault

• Sexual violation of digital avatar
• Issues such as privacy protection, hate speech, polarisation, addic-

tion, market gatekeeping etc continue to raise concerns

• Questions of control, content moderation, copyright infringement,

political destabilisation etc will assume greater importance with

growing metaverse

• Social inequalities, identity theft, psychological effects

PRIMITIVE SOLUTION

Interpol aims at deploying its metaverse technologies to remotely sen-

sitise its affiliates and other police organisations around the world in

this dynamic new virtual world.

It has real-world benefits for the police including through better remote

work, networking, modelling crime scenes to preserve evidence and

delivering training.
During a demo in New Delhi, experts delivered a training course on

travel document verification and passenger screening in a metaverse

classroom, with students then teleported to a virtual airport where they

could put the new skills into direct practice at a virtual border point.

INSUFFICIENT IMPLEMENTED MEASURES

• Meta has various functions to protect the safety of people in the vir-
tual environment. For example, it has developed a “safe space” op-

tion, called Personal Boundary, which imposes a distance between

avatars of 1.2 metres; if this distance is exceeded, the platform stops

the movement of the avatars.

• It is also possible to activate the recording of an event, which may

persuade potential criminals, since they would know that their crimes

would be recorded on video.
• The international police organisation has consolidated an alliance

with the World Economic Forum, Microsoft, Meta and other com-

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