Singapore’s police have ordered Apple AAPL.O and Google GOOGL.O to prevent the spoofing of government agencies on their messaging platforms, the home affairs ministry said on Tuesday. The order under the nation’s Online Criminal Harms Act came after the police observed scams on Apple’s iMessage and Google Messages purporting to be from companies such as the local postal service SingPost. In September, the government also threatened to impose fines on Meta Platforms META.O if it did not introduce measures, opens new tab like facial recognition to help curb impersonation scams on Facebook, including those involving key government office holders.
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