SINGAPORE: For over a year, thousands of people hid under a shroud of encryption, sharing obscene photos and lewd videos of Singaporean women., where many only identified by handles and pseudonyms. At its peak, the chat group had more than 44,000 members.So effective were the codes that concealed them that when the authorities nabbed the administrators of the chat group in October, at least 38,000 photos and 12,000 videos had already been traded.
A man holds a laptop computer as cyber code is projected on him in this illustration picture taken on May 13, 2017. READ: Commentary: Careful with photos you post online. You may be putting your digital identity at risk E-commerce scams, on the other hand, had the highest number of reported cases among all types of scams in the first half of the year, with an increase of 42 per cent to 1,435 cases, and a total of $1.2 million cheated from victims.Meanwhile the global illicit trade is expected to grow to US$2.8 trillion by 2022 from US$1.1 trillion in 2017.
In fact, the New South Wales police has been using automated facial recognition technology to cross-reference images of people of interest against a database of custody images and live CCTV feeds.