\u201cParents blame themselves in a lot of cases. They do not understand how it is possible,\u201d she said. \u201cThe problem is you don\u2019t 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
Drugs and AI are also a problem<\/p>\n
Among the new criminal methods crossing Europol\u2019s desks, two stand out: The use of so-called narco-submarines to smuggle drugs like cocaine from South America into the EU and the growth in AI technology fueling an explosion in online fraud that enforcement agencies are virtually powerless to stop.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Instead of shipping cocaine into the ports of Hamburg, Rotterdam and Antwerp through containers, criminals have diversified their methods, De Bolle said. One key route is to sail semi-submersible vessels from South America to Europe\u2019s North Atlantic coast, where speedboats meet them and offload the illegal cargo via Portugal, according to Europol\u2019s information.\u00a0<\/p>\n
While Europe now is \u201coverflooded with drugs,\u201d criminal organizations may make more money, more easily through online fraud, she said. \u201cArtificial intelligence is a multiplier for crime,\u201d she said. \u201cEverything is done a thousand times more and faster. The abuse of artificial intelligence lies in phishing emails \u2014 you do not recognize it very easily with phishing emails anymore because the language is correct.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
She said \u201cromance fraud\u201d is also \u201cbooming,\u201d as \u201cpeople look for love, also online.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cWith 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,\u201d De Bolle added.\u00a0<\/p>\n
De Bolle said Europol needed to be able to access encrypted phone messages with a judge\u2019s authorization to disrupt these criminal networks. \u201cWhen 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,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
Otherwise, \u201cwe will be blind and then we cannot do our job.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cParents blame themselves in a lot of cases. They do not understand how it is possible,\u201d she said.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[1213,1942,28,10836,184271,2001,2814,12495,7964,2000,299,5187,1699,349,1583,31865,2817,2003,2452,7697,3046,6512,48,332,811,1398,182,22713,42660,53,771,1116],"class_list":{"0":"post-583902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-americas","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-buildings","11":"tag-cargo","12":"tag-catherine-de-bolle","13":"tag-communications","14":"tag-data","15":"tag-development","16":"tag-enforcement","17":"tag-eu","18":"tag-europe","19":"tag-european","20":"tag-european-union","21":"tag-fraud","22":"tag-gaming","23":"tag-hybrid-threats","24":"tag-intelligence","25":"tag-law-enforcement","26":"tag-media","27":"tag-ports","28":"tag-portugal","29":"tag-privacy","30":"tag-rights","31":"tag-russia","32":"tag-security","33":"tag-shipping","34":"tag-social-media","35":"tag-south-america","36":"tag-submarines","37":"tag-technology","38":"tag-war","39":"tag-weapons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115585654733714293","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}