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Convert a static face photo into a "face recognition" function, then log in to other people's accounts to collect personal information, and then sell the information to fraud gangs...Recently, this case of using AI technology to infringe on citizens' personal information was cracked by the Hangzhou police in Zhejiang Province.
On September 13, the Hangzhou Public Security Bureau of Zhejiang Province held a press conference on the interim results of the summer public security crackdown and rectification campaign, disclosing this case.
In June this year, Hangzhou Internet Police discovered that a criminal gang used "AI face-changing" technology on overseas platforms to break through the login authentication of the head platform and obtain all the information left by users on the platform. The gang first stole the user's personal photos, then input the photos into a "multi-modal special large model" overseas, and then input the text to present the effect they want to present. For example, the commonly used facial recognition "open your mouth", "turn your head to the left", "blink", etc. can generate the corresponding video. The gang has two purposes: one is to peek into the user's personal privacy; the other is to sell the user's personal information to the fraud gang. Through this method of committing crimes, the gang made a profit of nearly 200,000 yuan.
After investigation by the public security organs at the city and district levels in Hangzhou, the police successfully locked down a gang of four suspects, Hu Mouyun (male, 26 years old), Hu Mouliang (male, 23 years old), Zhang Mouguo (male, 29 years old), and Wu Mouhao (male, 29 years old). In August, the task force arrested the four suspects in Anhui, Guizhou, and Zhejiang and detained them according to law.
Zhu Jiaming, deputy captain of the Fourth Brigade of the Hangzhou Public Security Bureau's Internet Police Branch, introduced that there are probably four sources of user personal information leakage: one is to defraud citizens' personal information based on close relationships; the second is to steal citizens' personal information through online and offline channels; the third is to use some product tools to illegally collect citizens' personal information; and the fourth is that some people use their positions to illegally leak citizens' personal information. The police reminded that the public should first do a good job in information security management, including personal mobile phones, computers and other smart terminal devices, and not to easily click on some unknown links. Enterprise platforms should also speed up iteration and upgrade, add facial recognition functions such as optical recognition, and better protect privacy information.
The press conference also released the interim results of the summer security crackdown and rectification campaign. Since the launch of the operation, the number of criminal cases in Hangzhou has dropped by 22.1% year-on-year, the number of prominent public security cases in summer such as provoking trouble, assaulting others, and intentional injury has dropped by 11% year-on-year, and traffic fatalities have dropped by 7.6% year-on-year, effectively ensuring the continued stability of the overall social situation in Hangzhou.
During the operation, Hangzhou police have eliminated 235 criminal gangs of various types, arrested more than 10,000 suspects, arrested 632 fugitives, and solved more than 4,000 cases. In particular, the number of solved cases of electronic fraud increased by 63.5% year-on-year, the number of people arrested increased by 47.8% year-on-year, the number of cases decreased by 28.2% year-on-year, and the number of losses decreased by 50.4% year-on-year.