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[ad_1] Have you or someone you know been a victim of fraud? If so, that's not unusual. The UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported a rise of 25 per cent in the number of fraud offences in 2021 compared to 2020 in the UK. Representing over 40 per cent of all crimes against individuals, fraud is the most common crime in the UK.If these statistics are not alarming enough, there is some evidence that AI is making it harder to detect scams. People often blame fraud victims for being foolish or trusting enough to fall for a scam. But it's time to accept that it can happen to anyone. It's a problem so large we need to revise our concept of fraud as something that only happens to gullible or vulnerable people. The human brain can't keep up with all of the new technology-enabled types...

[ad_1] The Google for India 2023 event has just concluded. The big annual event took place in New Delhi's Pragati Maidan. A roundtable conference was also organized where senior executives of Google talked about various initiatives and programs in front of select people from the media. One of the major highlights was the announcement of the launch of Digi Kavach, a new program designed to keep users safe online and to protect them from scams. The project is being launched in India as a pilot project, and later the model will also be implemented in other countries.Saikat Mitra, vice president and head of trust and safety, at APAC, made the big announcement and said that this program was born out of the concern of how to keep 1 billion people of India safe online. Digi Kavach was being la...

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As AI makes it worse, fraud is a problem so big we must teach kids how to spot it in schools

Google for India 2023: Google to launch Digi Kavach to protect Indian users from online scams