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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

The last time you took a selfie to verify your identity on an app, you probably thought the system was doing one thing — checking whether your face matched your photo. It wasn't. Before that match ev Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-selfie-passes-4-secret-tests-before-anyone-checks-your-face

The European Commission declared its age verification app ready to roll out across the entire bloc. Security researchers broke through its core protections in about two minutes. Not two hours. Not tw Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/eus-age-check-app-declared-ready-researchers-cracked-it-in-2-minutes

A security researcher walked into the R.S.A.C. conference in twenty twenty-six wearing a pair of Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses. Within seconds, those glasses — paired with a commercial facial recognition system — identified Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/metas-smart-glasses-can-id-strangers-in-seconds-75-groups-say-kill-it-now

Seventy thousand people uploaded photos of their government I.D.s to Discord. They weren't applying for a job or opening a bank account. They were just trying to prove they were eighteen. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/discord-leaked-70-000-ids-answering-one-simple-question-are-you-18

A wireless carrier just launched a service that clones your voice and places calls from your real phone number. Not a research demo. Not a startup pitch deck. A Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/call-to-confirm-is-dead-carrier-level-voice-cloning-killed-it

In April of this year, a man in Ohio became the first person convicted under the federal TAKE IT DOWN Act. He'd used A.I. to generate non-consensual intimate images of adults and children in his own neighborhood. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/deepfakes-are-criminal-cases-now-most-investigators-still-cant-prove-a-photo-is-

The European Union launched a brand-new age verification app on 04-14-2026 . Someone bypassed it in under two minutes. Not with a sophisticated hack. N Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/one-boolean-flag-broke-the-eus-age-check-the-10-4b-industry-has-the-same-flaw

In 2024 , a finance employee at Arup, a major U.K. engineering firm, joined a video call with several senior leaders. Every face on screen looked right. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/the-face-matched-the-voice-matched-the-person-never-existed

A finance worker in Hong Kong got a phishing email claiming to be from his company's chief financial officer in the U.K. He didn't buy it. Then he joined a video call, saw the C.F.O.'s face, saw othe Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/the-faces-were-fake-the-25-million-was-real

Sixty percent of people say they're confident they can spot a deepfake. According to a 2024 study cited by Florida Realtors, only zero point one percent actually can. That means the people who feel m Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/a-deepfake-fooled-a-notary-on-a-live-call-the-ears-gave-it-away

A finance worker in Hong Kong joined a video call with his chief financial officer and several colleagues. He recognized their faces. He heard their voices. Over the course of th Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/a-fake-cfo-stole-25-6m-the-real-victim-is-your-evidence-process

A judge in Alameda County, California threw out an entire civil case after discovering that videotaped witness testimony was a deepfake. Not a blurry, glitchy fake you'd catch on a second watch. A sy Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/guilty-until-proven-real-how-deepfakes-broke-the-rules-of-evidence

A judge looks at an investigator and asks one question. "What's your false match rate?" The investigator has fifteen years of experience comparing faces. But they don't have a nu Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/facial-comparisons-dna-moment-is-here-most-investigators-arent-ready

Nearly all U.S. states — forty-seven out of fifty — have now passed some form of deepfake legislation. And according to compliance tracking data, more than four out of five of those laws landed in just the last two years Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/courts-wont-ask-if-you-spotted-the-deepfake-theyll-ask-if-you-even-looked