{"id":285785,"date":"2025-11-27T08:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T08:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/285785\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T08:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T08:22:07","slug":"essex-police-and-ee-mobile-join-forces-to-warn-about-ai-dangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/285785\/","title":{"rendered":"Essex Police and EE mobile join forces to warn about AI dangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The problems caused by deepfakes are varied and widespread. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Conservative MP for Mid Norfolk, George Freeman, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c62e7xz02dpo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported a deepfake to police in October. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The bogus video, which looked and sounded like the MP, appeared to show him announcing he was defecting to Reform UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Freeman is calling for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx24w7l8ljgo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">changes in the law<\/a> to protect victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Det Insp Portfleet, who leads the Essex Police online investigation team, said the online and real worlds &#8220;are merging so fast and it&#8217;s so hard for people to know what&#8217;s fake and what&#8217;s real&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The campaign is just one way to get ahead of the problem; we will always investigate crime, but we would far rather stop it happening in the first place,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The problems caused by deepfakes are varied and widespread. The Conservative MP for Mid Norfolk, George Freeman, reported&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-285785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}