‘Think Before You Link’: app launched to help social media users detect fake profiles | Cybercrime | The Guardian
A mobile phone app has been launched that will help social media users to detect fake profiles and speed up their removal.
The Think Before You Link app will help people to spot characteristics of fraudulent profiles used by spies and other malicious actors, according to the Cabinet Office and the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure.
The app isn't called Think Before You Link. That's the name of the awareness campaign. The app is called CPNI, at least in the Apple App Store. But before you install it you should know a couple of things:
- The Centre for the Protection of National Infrastucture (CPNI) is answerable to MI5, the British Security Service.
- The app requires your name, email address, phone number, and your physical address.
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