Coders and students go after counterfeit goods sold online

Nov 07, 2022

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It’s the holiday shopping season, with many customers going online to make their purchases. However, it’s not always clear whether the item you are buying is real.

Amazon and George Mason University’s Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center brought together 11 teams of coders and college students from around the world to take on the global issue of online counterfeiting at the Bring Down Counterfeiting Hackathon 2022, held at the Department of Homeland Security’s Innovation Lab in Arlington on Saturday.

The winning team, Hyper Cube from Canada, won a $20,000 prize for their idea — an app that alerts consumers, with the snap a picture, to whether their purchase is a fake.

Louise Shelley

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