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When your kid takes a selfie video to prove they're old enough for a chat app, that app isn't confirming who they are. It's making a guess. A probability. And right now, two of the biggest platforms y

A candidate for county executive in St. Charles, Missouri, paid for a political attack ad. The people in the video? They weren't filmed. They were generated by a computer. And under Missouri law, nobo

The next time you walk into a grocery store, a camera might turn your face into a string of code before you reach the produce aisle. In downtown Spokane, one discount grocery is already doing exactly that — measuring the

Try on a pair of glasses online — the kind where you point your camera at your face and watch the frames appear? A federal court just ruled that a company doing exactly that can be sued for scanning your face without permission.

You uploaded a selfie to try on some glasses. Just to see how the frames would look. But that photo? It didn't stay a photo. In the split second between your upload and the preview, invisible software turned your face into a string of numbers

That "quick selfie to verify it's really you"? Scammers can now fake that too. According to LexisNexis Risk Solutions, one in every hundred identity checks that fails now involves a deepfake — a fake document, a fake phot

You tried on a pair of glasses online. You clicked the little button that says "see how these look on you." Your webcam turned on, mapped your face, and showed you the frames. A federal court just ruled that scan wasn't healthcare — it was a

A hiring algorithm can filter out more than a quarter of Black applicants — and starting next August, an A.I. system doing exactly that can enter the European market with no record of where its training data came from, and no proof it was eve

When you take a selfie to prove who you are — to open a bank account, or unlock a service — you probably think the app is just checking whether your face matches your ID. But that selfie is only one of at least four separ

The best deepfake detector doesn't look at the face at all. It watches how the face moves. And it turns out the most convincing fake video in the world gives itself away — not in the skin, not in the eyes, but in the motion between one frame

More than a third of American teenagers say someone made a fake nude of them — without their consent. That's not a headline about celebrities. That's kids in ordinary schools, and the tools used to do it were sitting on the App Store.

Picture this. You clock in at work every morning by scanning your fingerprint. You do it twice a day for five years. That's about twenty-six hundred scans of your body. And a federal court just decided that all of those scans count as one sin

You walked into a Wegmans this year, picked up your groceries, and a camera turned your face into a string of numbers. You were never told. Wegmans admitted it — a handful of its stores were using facial recognition, quie

Last month in Perth, Australia, a police van drove down public streets and scanned the faces of everyone who walked past. In one week, it captured more than a hundred and thirty thousand faces. And th

There's a piece of malware called GoldPickaxe that doesn't want your password. It wants a video of your face. And once it has that, there's nothing you can do to take it back — because unlike a passwo

The next time you walk into a Grocery Outlet in the Bay Area, a camera may scan your face before you even touch a shopping basket. You won't get a warning. You won't sign anything. And in California, the store doesn't hav

Fifty million phones were carrying finished facial-recognition code — and almost nobody who installed the app knew it was there. It could spot a face. It could turn that face into a string of numbers. It could match that

Anthropic just started asking people to upload a photo of their driver's license before they can use Claude — their A.I. chatbot. No regulation forced them to do it. They chose to, before anyone made

That video of Erling Haaland staring at himself in a restaurant mirror — the one that racked up thirty-one million views on X in just a few days? It was fake. The footage came from a Chinese comedy sk

Twenty photos. That's all it takes. According to reporting from Social Ketchup and other outlets covering Meta's new tools, twenty pictures pulled from a kid's social feed are enough to build a thirty-second deepfake video — the kind used for

A teacher's video went viral across India. People argued for days about whether it was real or made by artificial intelligence. It turned out to be real. But the fight over "is this fake?" — that argu

The next time your payment app asks you to verify your identity, that request might be the most dangerous message you'll ever tap. In South Korea, three of the biggest payment apps just got the government's permission to

Someone tried to break into a bank account using a high-quality photo of the real customer's face. They held it up to the camera, hoping to fool the system. The system caught it instantly — and locked

That little box asking for your birthday? The one where you type in a date and click enter? It never actually checked anything. You could type in any year you wanted, and the website just took your word for it.

That little box that pops up around your face when your phone camera opens? It didn't recognize you. It has no idea who you are. All it did was notice that something in the frame is shaped like a face. And I think most o