Internet industry

Deepfake Videos Are Getting Terrifyingly Real

| PBS | Deepfakes are an increasingly popular editing technique that uses artificial intelligence to alter faces and voices in videos. Part of the name comes from the AI used to create them, deep learning. Similar technology has been used…

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The dangers of deepfakes

| DW | “Don’t believe everything you see or hear on the Internet”. Today, we present to you an issue that has been very popular these past few years. Deepfake isn’t new, but it’s gotten more attention since the release…

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The $500 Billion/Year World of Counterfeits

| VICE | ‘Bad Goods’ is a documentary series for Vice News looking at the worldwide illicit trade market, from wildlife trafficking, counterfeit item selling and sand mining. It will follow key people, from enforcement to traffickers, at the heart…

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Credit Card Scammers on the Dark Web

| VICE | Credit card fraud has been on the rise for about a decade. In 2016 alone, losses topped $24 billion worldwide, half of which affected cardholders in the US. With a virtually unlimited amount of money to be…

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How can social media users be protected from hackers?

| Al Jazeera | It may seem safe enough to post your phone number and date of birth on social media. But that information could end up being shared all over the web. The personal details of more than half…

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Cyber Censors. What’s the future of the internet?

| RT Documentary | What’s the future of the internet? Digital reality will soon face a tough challenge. A war of platforms is breaking out in the virtual world, and it seems to be beyond the reach of any government….

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Fraud: how I was scammed and you could be too

| Financial Times | Authorised push payment frauds, where people are tricked into transferring money into criminal-controlled accounts, are growing fast, with £354mn stolen last year. FT journalist and fraud victim Joe Sinclair talks to readers about how they’ve been…

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Why Amazon Has So Many Counterfeit Goods

| CNBC | Seizures of counterfeit products at U.S. borders have increased 10-fold over the past two decades as e-commerce sales have boomed. The total value of seized goods – if they had been real – reached nearly $1.4 billion…

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Rats & Slaves

| VPRO | In de 3LAB-documentaire Rats & Slaves onderzoekt filmmaker Anthony van der Meer de levendige digitale handel in gehackte computers. Hij infiltreert op een hackersforum voor ‘RATters’; hackers die mensen bespioneren, bestelen of afpersen. Deze slachtoffers worden ‘slaves’…

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The Cleaners

| VPRO | Twee jonge Duitse filmmakers slagen er in om toegang te krijgen tot een van de beter bewaakte geheimen van Facebook.The Cleaners geeft een inkijk in de verborgen wereld van de digitale schoonmaak waar wordt verwijderd wat ‘men’…

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