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Dutch shops pull Meta camera glasses over privacy fears
Two retailers have stopped selling them while the Dutch government looks at a ban.
Interpol says AI makes scams faster and harder to spot, so protect what matters most first
CNBC· 2 OctInterpol's global chief information security officer, Bjorn Watne, told CNBC that AI is speeding up existing crime such as scams and fraud rather than inventing new kinds. Better translation and fake digital identities make fraud harder to tell from real contact. His advice: find your "crown jewels", the things your business cannot run without, and protect those first instead of trying to guard everything.
- Write down the three things your business cannot run without this week, such as the bank login, the booking system and the customer list, and turn on two-step login for each.
- Agree a call-back rule: any request to change bank details or pay a new supplier is checked by phone on a number you already have.
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