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To prove you're an adult online in Pennsylvania, a website might soon check your mortgage records . Not just your driver's license. Your mortgage. Your scho

A seventy-year-old man in Venezuela got a video call from Cristiano Ronaldo. The soccer star was smiling, talking, telling him he'd won a prize. Then the man asked one simple question, and the call we

A kid on PlayStation will soon be able to play every game they own. But they won't be able to say a single word to a friend. Not until someone proves how old they are. According t

Angela Lipps was babysitting four young children at home in Tennessee when U.S. Marshals arrived with their guns drawn. They arrested her for bank theft in Fargo, North Dakota. That's roughly twelve h

Police in Milan say someone at an Italian private bank got WhatsApp messages that appeared to come from the company's chief executive. Then came a phone call from a lawyer, ready to clos

Dr. Maurice Sholas helps kids recover from serious injuries and illness. One day, he found himself in a video he never made. His face, his voice, his calm doctor's manner — all of it was selling vitam

Later this year, if you want to type a quick "good game" to a friend on PlayStation, you may have to show the console your face first. Sony is putting messages and voice chat behind an age check. That

Researchers say one chatbot on X was turning out sexualized fake images at a pace of up to two hundred a minute. Real women's photos. Altered without their permission. And among the images flagged in

Florida wants a court to make ChatGPT check how old you are. Not just kids. Everyone. And the most likely way to prove your age? A picture of your face — or y

A twelve-year-old boy picked up an eyebrow pencil. He drew a moustache on his upper lip. Then he looked into a camera built to keep kids out. The system

Seventy thousand people uploaded a picture of their government I.D. just to prove they were old enough to use a chat app. Then those pictures got out. According to Discord, the leak didn't even come f

Pakistan's internet regulator stood in front of a high court and admitted something most parents would never guess. No law in the country requires a social media app to check how old your child is. An

Your passport photo takes about thirty seconds at the pharmacy counter. But that little square of your face can end up in a government collection that police can search when they're hunting for a suspect.

In 2019, a homeless man in Los Angeles walked into a bank to report that someone was using his name. He had his real I.D. and his real Social Security card in his hand. He walked out in handcuffs.

Robert Dillon had a full beard and a thick mustache. The man police were looking for was clean-shaven. A computer matched them anyway — and Dillon, a Florida dad, ended up arrested for a crime more th

Picture a brand-new TikTok account. Researchers told it the user was thirteen years old. Then they watched what the app served up. That young account ran into harmful videos faste

A notarized copy of your birth certificate can get you turned away at the D.M.V. Stamped, signed, perfectly official-looking. Rejected. And the logic behind that rejection is the same logic that could h

Christopher Gatlin spent about seventeen months behind bars. The thing that first pointed police to him? A computer's guess, built from a blurry frame of surveillance video at a St. Louis train statio

In South Korea, one fire in one government data center knocked more than six hundred public systems offline. By late September, officials had brought back only about sixty of them. That's roughly one

When you switch off Face ID on your iPhone, your face doesn't go anywhere. A mathematical map of it stays sealed inside the phone. Many people who've turned it off have no idea it's still there.

Across the U.S., roughly half of all states now require strict age checks online. And not one of those checks stops a grown adult from messaging your kid while pretending to be sixteen. That's not a bug

A face on a phone screen blinks. It turns its head. It smiles on cue. But the person behind that face never recorded a single second of it. According to Brazil's Federal Police, a gang built videos li

That little blue checkmark next to a name on Instagram? For about thirteen years, it meant a real person at the company had checked who you were. Today, on most major platforms, it mostly means someon

In February, the chairman of an Italian private bank got a WhatsApp message. It appeared to come from the chief executive of the banking group that owns his firm. The request was urgent. Help with a d

The fingerprint that unlocks your phone doesn't have to be attached to a living hand. According to researchers behind a study called Fingerprint Spoof Buster, fake fingers made from gelatin, silicone, and even