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Twenty-six states have passed laws targeting deepfakes in elections. Not one federal law bans a deepfake political ad. And California's attempt to pass one? A court struck it down on First Amendment Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/deepfake-laws-are-fracturing-your-evidence-may-not-survive-2026

Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister Simon Harris recently watched a video of himself endorsing a financial product. He didn't remember making it. Because he never did. According to t Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/deepfake-fraud-just-broke-your-intake-process-heres-what-investigators-need-to-f

Three seconds. That's all someone needs from a clip of your voice — a podcast guest spot, a LinkedIn video, even a quick voicemail — to build a clone that hits an eighty-five percent match to how you actually sound. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/3-seconds-of-audio-is-all-a-scammer-needs-to-become-you

A single company just crossed three hundred forty million dollars in annual revenue — not by selling software to Silicon Valley, but by selling fraud detection to banks, government agencies, and sportsbook operators who can't tell real peopl Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/why-340m-in-fraud-fighting-revenue-should-terrify-every-investigator

An employee at the engineering firm Arup joined a video call with his C.F.O. and several colleagues. They talked through a series of wire transfers. He authorized fifteen of them. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/47-states-4-legal-regimes-one-deepfake-the-jurisdiction-trap-investigators-never

Your phone unlocked this morning. Maybe with your face, maybe with your thumb. That unlock didn't prove it was you. It proved someone matched a template you once enrolled — and m Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-phone-unlocked-that-doesnt-prove-who-used-it

A North Korean hacking group cloned the faces and voices of real company executives, then invited targets into what looked like ordinary Microsoft Teams meetings. The targets joined branded Slack workspaces, saw LinkedIn Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-voice-just-sold-you-out-the-3-second-clone-that-walked-into-axios

A private letter from Apple nearly wiped one of the biggest A.I. apps off every iPhone on the planet. Not a court order. Not a new law. A letter from a company that controls a di Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/apples-private-letter-did-what-congress-couldnt-kill-the-deepfake-apps

A single sharp frame of someone's face can fool you completely. But stack just three frames side by side, and a deepfake starts to fall apart. The reason has nothing to do with blurry pixels or weird Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/one-frame-fools-you-three-frames-catch-the-deepfake

A woman named Emily Hart built a following of more than six hundred fifty thousand people. She raised two point one million dollars for A.I. startups. She never existed. Accordi Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/she-raised-2-1m-and-had-650k-followers-she-wasnt-real

A passenger boarded a plane in Tokyo, transferred in Hong Kong, and landed in London — without showing a physical passport or boarding pass once. Not a simulation. I.A.T.A., the global trade body for Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-face-just-cleared-customs-who-owns-it-now

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