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Your fingerprint has never logged you into anything. Not your banking app. Not your password manager. Not your email. Every time you press your thumb to that Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-fingerprint-never-logged-you-in-heres-what-actually-did

The U.S. government just committed seven and a half million dollars to build facial recognition glasses for immigration agents. According to leaked budget documents first reported by journalist Ken Klippenstein, I.C.E. p Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/ices-7-5m-face-scanning-glasses-hit-streets-by-2027-and-the-industrys-silence-is

In India, about one and a half million women — most of them earning less than two dollars a day — now have to scan their own faces on a government app before they're allowed to hand out bags of rice to pregnant mothers and malnourished child Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/why-must-1-4-million-women-scan-their-faces-to-hand-out-rice

The next time you walk through an airport gate, a camera will scan your face, check it against a database, and decide whether to let you board. The whole thing takes under three seconds. But buried i Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/the-3-second-face-scan-5-hidden-steps-between-you-and-your-gate

In the past year alone, according to a joint study by UNICEF , ECPAT , and INTERPOL , roughly one point two million children across eleven countries told researchers Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/1-in-25-kids-are-now-deepfake-victims-and-your-investigators-arent-ready

Three seconds of audio. That's all it takes to clone your voice now. A clip from a social media video, a voicemail greeting, even a quick voice message — and for about sixty dollars a month, a strang Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-voice-is-the-password-it-just-got-cracked-for-60-a-month

A quarter of a million Americans filed complaints about A.I. voice cloning scams in just the first three months of twenty-six. And that's only the people who realized it happened. Most never do — bec Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/3-seconds-of-audio-can-clone-your-ceos-voice-heres-what-actually-stops-the-scam

A finance worker in Hong Kong joined a video call with his chief financial officer and several colleagues. He recognized their faces. He recognized their voices. They told him to Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/deepfake-fraud-hits-1-1b-and-your-eyes-are-wrong-75-of-the-time

Voice deepfake attacks jumped nearly seven hundred percent in a single year. And according to researchers, some tools can now clone a person's voice from just three seconds of audio. Three seconds — Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/deepfake-fraud-hits-2-19b-and-your-face-scan-wont-save-you

A new deepfake attempt is created every five minutes. That's not a projection. According to data from twenty twenty-four, digital forgeries surged by two hundred and forty-four percent in a single ye Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/deepfake-fraud-doesnt-beat-your-eyes-it-beats-your-workflow

Over the past two years, researchers counted a hundred and fifty-six deepfakes targeting U.S. government officials. One person — Donald Trump — appeared in more than half of them. The top three most- Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/deepfakes-just-broke-evidence-why-investigators-must-authenticate-before-they-an

On 4-3-2026 , China's internet regulator published draft rules that would require signed consent before anyone's face can be used to create an A.I. avatar or a deepfake. E Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/chinas-deepfake-rules-just-rewrote-the-evidence-playbook-and-investigators-have-

A network of seven million people across the U.K. can now prove they're old enough to buy a drink — without ever showing their face. Not a photo I.D. Not a selfie. Not even their Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/age-verification-just-changed-forever-your-face-gets-checked-once-then-never-aga

About a third of workers say they'd happily swap their badge for a fingerprint or a face scan. Meanwhile, the United States has no federal law that specifically governs how employers collect, store, or destroy that biome Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/1-in-3-workers-want-biometric-badges-their-employers-arent-ready-for-what-happen

According to the F.B.I.'s latest cybercrime report, deepfake fraud now accounts for at least eight hundred and ninety-three million dollars in losses. Not projected losses. Not theoretical risk. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/deepfakes-scaled-your-verification-didnt

An I.C.E. official sat before Congress, described a tool the agency uses to find people, and compared it to Google Maps. Not Google Maps for directions. Google Maps for people. T Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/ices-new-google-maps-for-people-confidence-score-wrong-neighborhood-real-consequ

A deepfake video surfaced showing a silver-haired bishop in an amaranth skullcap and cassock, standing on church steps, confronting immigration agents. The bishop didn't exist. But the outfit was so Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/deepfakes-fool-you-with-the-uniform-not-the-face

Starting in June, every PlayStation account in the U.K. and Ireland will require an age check to use voice chat, messaging, or any communication feature. Sony's giving players three options. A facial Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-face-is-the-new-password-and-sony-just-pulled-the-trigger

In March, a political action committee ran a deepfake ad against a Democratic Senate candidate in Texas. The A.I.-generated version of that candidate spoke convincingly for over a minute. Not a few s Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/deepfakes-just-won-heres-the-only-move-left

Three out of four people now say they're more worried about their personal data than they were five years ago. And only seventeen percent fully trust the companies holding that data. So every time a Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/prove-youre-18-without-showing-who-you-are-the-cryptography-big-tech-wont-use

A bill moving through Congress right now would require you to prove your age before you can fully use your phone. Not just to download an app. To activate the operating system itself. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/metas-2b-bet-the-child-safety-bill-that-builds-a-national-id-layer

Six times in two years. India's government tried to force smartphone makers to pre-install its national biometric I.D. app on every phone sold in the country. Six times, Apple and Samsung said no. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/india-tried-6-times-to-force-a-biometric-app-on-your-phone-apple-and-samsung-jus

Only one in a thousand people can reliably tell a deepfake from the real thing. Not one in ten. Not one in a hundred. One in a thousand. And the reason isn't Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/only-1-in-1-000-people-can-spot-a-deepfake-heres-the-microsecond-gap-your-brain-

One hundred and seventy-nine prisoners walked out of jails across England and Wales between April of last year and March of this year. Not through tunnels. Not over walls. Staff released them by mist Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/179-prisoners-walked-free-the-fix-is-watching-your-face

A kit that costs about twelve dollars on Telegram can now fool the identity checks most banks use to verify you're a real person. Twelve dollars. That's less than a movie ticket. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/12-telegram-kits-are-gutting-your-banks-biometric-defenses