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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

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-