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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

An N.B.C. News investigation searched the names of thirty-six well-known female celebrities on Google and Bing. On Google, thirty-four of those searches returned nonconsensual deepfake pornography right at the top of the Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/prove-its-not-a-deepfake-the-evidence-challenge-most-investigators-will-lose

A finance worker in Hong Kong joins a video call with colleagues. The C.F.O. is there. Other team members are there. Faces visible, voices familiar. By the end of that call, the worker has wired twen Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/the-deepfake-you-should-fear-doesnt-have-a-face

A Pennsylvania state police corporal just pleaded guilty to creating three thousand deepfake pornography images. Three thousand. And the thing that caught him wasn't an investigation. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/a-cop-made-3-000-deepfake-porn-images-a-bandwidth-spike-caught-him-no-investigat

A Pennsylvania state trooper just pleaded guilty to creating three thousand deepfake images. He built them using driver's license photos and law enforcement databases — the same systems police use every day to identify s Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/the-cop-who-made-3-000-deepfakes-exposed-a-bigger-problem-than-deepfakes

Every time your phone unlocks with a glance, it isn't recognizing your face. It's measuring the distance between two points in a space with a hundred and twenty-eight dimensions. And that distance ca Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/that-facial-match-score-is-lying-to-your-face

A retiree in Saskatchewan handed over three thousand dollars to someone she believed was Prime Minister Mark Carney. She watched a video of him endorsing a cryptocurrency investment. His face, his vo Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/every-image-is-guilty-until-proven-authentic

A billion dollars. That's how much Americans lost to deepfake fraud this year alone. Triple what it was just twelve months ago. And the people behind it? M Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/deepfake-fraud-tripled-to-1-1b-your-evidence-workflow-didnt

A confidence score of ninety-five percent sounds rock solid. But according to research published by CaraComp , that same algorithm's accuracy can plummet by fifty percentage points — half i Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/a-facial-recognition-match-isnt-evidence-until-it-survives-these-4-hidden-steps

In Illinois right now, lawmakers are pushing a bill that would ban police from using facial recognition. At the same time, the T.S.A. scans travelers' faces at more than two hundred fifty airports across the country. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/facial-recognition-isnt-on-trial-your-explanation-is

A Pennsylvania State Police corporal just pleaded guilty to creating three thousand A.I.-generated pornographic images. He didn't scrape photos from social media. He pulled them from law enforcement Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/the-courtroom-question-youre-not-ready-for-prove-this-video-isnt-a-deepfake

A school administrator gets a video message from their head of school. The face is right. The voice is right. The message says to authorize a payment to a new supplier. So they do. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/that-smoking-gun-video-its-not-evidence-its-a-suspect

A finance worker in Hong Kong sat on a video call with his company's chief financial officer and several colleagues. Every face on that screen was fake. Every voice was synthetic. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/deepfakes-surged-2-137-courts-rewrote-the-rules-investigators-didnt

A man in Columbus, Ohio just became the first person in the country convicted under the federal Take It Down Act. His name is James Strahler the Second. According to prosecutors, he used more than a Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/first-federal-deepfake-conviction-puts-every-investigators-methodology-on-trial

A ninety-five percent confidence score sounds almost perfect. But apply that to a database of ten million faces, and you've just flagged five hundred thousand people as potential matches — every single one of them wrong. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/investigators-cant-explain-their-own-facial-recognition-evidence-courts-noticed

China's internet regulator just did something no Western government has tried. On 04-03-2026 , Beijing published draft rules that make creating a digital copy of someone's Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/china-made-creating-a-deepfake-the-crime-not-sharing-it-u-s-courts-are-already-f

Sharon Brightwell picked up the phone and heard her daughter crying. Her daughter said she'd been in a car accident. She needed money right away. Sharon sent fifteen thousand dol Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/she-recognized-her-daughters-voice-instantly-thats-exactly-why-the-scam-worked

According to Cybernews' 2025 A.I. incident database, eighty-one percent of reported A.I. fraud cases were driven by deepfake technology. Not ten percent. Not a growing slice. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/the-face-in-that-video-is-flawless-thats-your-first-red-flag