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fromSecurityWeek
2 days ago

Meta Launches New Protection Tools as It Helps Disrupt Scam Centers

Meta disrupted Southeast Asian scam centers targeting US, UK, and APAC users by shutting down 150,000 accounts and removing 159 million fraudulent ads in 2025.
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fromTech Times
2 days ago

Meta Launches Major AI Crackdown on Facebook, Instagram Scams After Removing 159 Million Fraud Ads

Meta deployed AI-powered tools and international law enforcement collaboration to combat fraud, removing 159 million scam ads and disabling 10.9 million accounts in 2025.
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fromwww.socialmediatoday.com
3 days ago

Meta adds new scam protections to Facebook, WhatsApp and Messenger

Meta introduced scam prevention features across Facebook, WhatsApp, and Messenger, and collaborated with law enforcement to arrest 21 scammers during a joint disruption operation.
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fromTheregister
3 days ago

Meta, cops deploy AI and handcuffs in scam crackdown

Meta deployed anti-scam tools across WhatsApp, Facebook, and Messenger, including device-linking warnings and suspicious friend request alerts, while law enforcement disrupted scam networks and arrested 21 fraudsters.
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fromWIRED
3 days ago

Meta Ramps Up Efforts to Disrupt Industrialized Scamming

Meta launched new account protections to detect suspicious scam activity early, while a multi-agency operation arrested 21 scammers and disabled 150,000 accounts linked to Southeast Asian scam compounds.
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fromEngadget
1 week ago

Canadian government says OpenAI will take further steps to strengthen safety protocols

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman agreed to strengthen safety protocols including law enforcement notification for suspicious ChatGPT use following a mass shooting incident where the suspect's account was flagged but authorities were not alerted.
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fromBusiness Insider
3 weeks ago

How Walmart and Google became key to the search for Nancy Guthrie

Google and Walmart provided data and footage that assisted investigators searching for missing 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie.
fromElectronic Frontier Foundation
1 month ago

No One, Including Our Furry Friends, Will Be Safer in Ring's Surveillance Nightmare

Amazon Ring's Super Bowl ad offered a vision of our streets that should leave every person unsettled about the company's goals for disintegrating our privacy in public. In the ad, disguised as a heartfelt effort to reunite the lost dogs of the country with their innocent owners, the company previewed future surveillance of our streets: a world where biometric identification could be unleashed from consumer devices to identify, track, and locate anything - human, pet, and otherwise.
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fromReadWrite
1 month ago

Singapore Police announces new migrant worker ambassadors, working to address gambling risks

Those who apply have to undergo an interview and are then assessed on a number of criteria and they are required to work in Singapore for more than two years. Once named an ambassador, they are then trained to educate about problematic gambling behaviors. They also share crime prevention advisories with the CCIB's guidance and help guide peers towards available support, including casino self-exclusion. The people selected must participate in at least one outreach session at dormitories or recreational centers during their two-year term.
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US news
fromwww.amny.com
5 months ago

Chlorine gas threat outside Manhattan police precinct leads to cold case murder arrest in Georgia | amNewYork

A Georgia man was indicted for leaving an inoperable chlorine-threat device at an NYPD precinct and triggering an investigation that helped solve a Georgia murder.
fromwww.npr.org
6 months ago

33 hours: A timeline of Charlie Kirk's shooting and the search for a suspect

In less than 36 hours 33 to be precise thanks to the full weight of the federal government and leading out with the partners here in the state of Utah and Gov. [Spencer] Cox, the suspect was apprehended in a historic time period," FBI Director Kash Patel said. Officials are crediting "seamless" collaboration between local, state and federal law enforcement, as well as some 7,000 tips from members of the public, with speeding up the search for Kirk's alleged killer.
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