Google, Meta, Amazon and 8 other tech giants sign global accord to share scam intelligence

The Industry Accord Against Online Scams and Fraud, announced at the UN Global Fraud Summit in Vienna, commits 11 companies to share threat intelligence and coordinate defences against AI-driven fraud at scale.

When Google’s vice president of trust and safety stood up at the United Nations Global Fraud Summit in Vienna on Sunday to announce a new industry accord, the core of the pitch was unusually candid: scammers are coordinating better than the platforms trying to stop them.

The Industry Accord Against Online Scams and Fraud, signed by 11 companies including Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, OpenAI, Adobe, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Match Group, Levi Strauss, and Target, commits the group to sharing threat intelligence and coordinating defences against a threat that all of them face but none can effectively address alone. 

The practical mechanism at the heart of the initiative is Google’s Global Signal Exchange, a data-sharing infrastructure that the ...