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A court looked at fake explicit images of teenagers — and decided no crime had happened. The reason? The fakes weren't good enough. A South Korean judge ruled that because the manipulated photos were Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-face-their-fake-no-crime-the-court-ruling-that-should-terrify-every-parent

Three seconds. That's all someone needs of your kid's voice to clone it. Not three minutes. Not a recorded phone call. Three seconds — the length of a TikTok clip or a voicemail greeting — and a scammer can make your chil Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/that-panicked-call-from-your-kid-3-seconds-of-tiktok-is-all-a-scammer-needs

A man at a U.K. energy company picked up the phone and heard his boss's voice. Same German accent. Same rhythm. Same little melody when he spoke. So he did what his boss asked — he wired two hundred and twenty thousand eu Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-boss-just-called-for-220k-it-wasnt-him

When Florida switched on its age-check law for adult sites, something jumped almost overnight. Searches for ways to hide your location online spiked by more than a thousand percent. Not searches for s Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-face-your-id-your-kids-privacy-the-age-check-law-79-back-and-85-say-is-brok

A teenager doesn't need to have ever taken a nude photo to become a victim of blackmail anymore. The picture sitting on your kid's school website is enough. Software can turn an ordinary class photo i Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-kids-school-photo-is-all-a-blackmailer-needs-now

Spain's privacy regulator just made a decision that could break Europe's plan to put your I.D. on your phone. The regulator said your face — your biometric data — can't be the only way a company verifies who you are. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-face-is-about-to-become-your-id-and-nobody-agrees-who-owns-it

The same rulebook that governs robots performing surgery now governs the lane-assist in your car. Not a similar one. The exact same legal framework. And if that catches you off guard, it should — beca Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-cars-ai-just-got-the-same-rulebook-as-surgical-robots

Your fingerprint never leaves that card. Not when you pay. Not when the bank approves it. Not ever. The store you're buying from never sees it, and neither does your bank's computer halfway across the Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-fingerprint-never-leaves-that-card-heres-the-one-question-to-ask-your-bank

Only about one in four people say they'd be comfortable letting an artificial intelligence finish a purchase for them. Not start it. Finish it — click buy, enter the card, spend the money. And yet the Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-ai-is-about-to-start-buying-things-nobody-knows-how-to-prove-you-said-yes

A county is handing out fifteen hundred gun safes for free. They open with your fingerprint — no code, no key, just your thumb. But in the last year and a half, this exact kind of safe has triggered f Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/free-gun-safe-from-the-county-ask-these-2-questions-first

A bill in Congress could stop your state from passing new A.I. protections for three years. Not next year. Starting this summer. And during those same three years, A.I. systems will keep deciding who Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/congress-wants-to-freeze-your-states-ai-protections-for-3-years-while-ai-decides

Three seconds. That's all someone needs to copy your voice. A short video, a voice note, a clip from a livestream — three seconds of you talking is enough to build a fake version of your voice that matches the real thing about eighty-five per Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-kids-voice-is-calling-for-help-3-seconds-of-audio-is-all-a-scammer-needed

Eight out of nine job platforms sell your data. Not your matched employer — third parties you've never heard of. And more than a third of job seekers have no idea it's happening. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-job-application-just-sold-3-pieces-of-you

Picture losing your house key. Annoying, sure — but you call a locksmith, cut a new one, and you're back inside by dinner. Now picture the key is your face. And someone copied it. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-face-is-the-new-car-key-you-cant-change-it-when-its-stolen

A voice on the phone might need just three seconds of you talking to copy you perfectly. Three seconds. That's shorter than this sentence — and it's enough for an attacker to make your boss say anythi Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-bosss-voice-just-called-it-wasnt-him

Americans lost forty-seven billion dollars to identity fraud last year. And one of the fastest-growing tricks behind that number? A text message that looks exactly like it came from your bank — asking Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-bank-texted-you-dont-click-even-if-its-real

That little prompt on your TV asking you to verify your age or sign in? It's not actually checking anything. The verification is happening on your phone — in a backend server you'll never see — while your TV just sits there politely waiting f Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/that-tv-age-prompt-its-lying-about-whos-actually-checking

One in every twenty-five digital identity checks last year got flagged as fraud. That's not a phone scam or a phishing email. That's someone trying to prove they're a real person to a government system — and failing the t Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-id-is-becoming-an-online-account-heres-what-nobodys-telling-you

A hundred thousand children in Malaysia may have been targeted for online sexual exploitation in a single year. So the government did something drastic. Starting Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-kids-safety-now-costs-your-passport-and-hackers-are-watching

There's a scene in a recent comedy series where a man shakes hands with Bill Clinton — and Clinton isn't really there. The footage is convincing enough that audiences couldn't tell it was fake. What t Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/that-video-of-your-boss-six-cameras-and-a-lie-you-cant-see

A finance worker in Hong Kong sat through an entire video call with his chief financial officer and several colleagues. Everyone on that screen was fake. Every single face was a deepfake — and by the end of the call, twenty-five million dolla Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-boss-just-called-you-on-video-it-wasnt-him-25m-is-gone

Researchers showed people a series of videos and asked one simple question — which ones are fake? Across every age group, only one in a thousand people got them all right. One in a thousand. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-daughters-panicked-voice-on-the-phone-could-be-fake-heres-the-10-second-hab

A scammer needs just three seconds of your kid's voice to fake a panicked phone call. Three seconds. That's shorter than a TikTok clip, a voicemail greeting, or a quick video you posted last weekend. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/that-panicked-call-from-your-kid-3-seconds-of-tiktok-is-all-a-scammer-needs

To get into a social media account in twenty-five U.S. states right now, you may have to hand over your face. Not a password. Your actual face — scanned, measured, stored. And here's the part that sho Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-face-just-became-a-password-you-cant-change

A computer can look at your face, say it's a ninety-five percent match — and still be pointing at half a million people. That's not an exaggeration. In a database of ten million faces, that confident-sounding score can lea Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/that-95-face-match-it-could-mean-500-000-people