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A photo you posted on vacation. A headshot from your company's website. Someone took an ordinary picture of a real woman, fed it into an app, and within seconds had a fake nude that looked completely real. Two websites bu Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/200-000-strangers-just-got-caught-trading-fake-nudes-of-real-women-one-was-proba

A team of researchers pointed facial recognition software at four hundred and eight harbor seals. And it worked — eighty-eight percent of the time, it could tell one seal from another. But here's the Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-face-is-just-128-numbers-and-a-seal-just-proved-it

According to researchers at the World Economic Forum, the most realistic human face you'll see today might belong to someone who doesn't exist. In their study, people looked at A.I.-generated faces and genuine photos of r Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/the-most-real-face-youll-see-today-was-never-born

A federal judge in Illinois just ruled that more than six million people can sue Apple. Their claim? That the photos app on their phone mapped their faces without ever asking permission. Six million f Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-face-got-mapped-by-apple-6-million-people-are-suing

Picture this. Your next flight doesn't ask for your passport. It asks for your face. And the reason isn't convenience — it's that the old way of checking who you are is quietly breaking down. A border Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-face-is-your-passport-now-and-you-have-months-not-years-to-catch-up

A complaint video lands in a food company's inbox. A customer says they found something in the product. The footage looks real — the packaging, the lighting, the disgust on their face. And none of it ever happened. The wh Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/that-proof-your-food-is-safe-ai-just-learned-to-fake-it

Your face right now is being turned into exactly one hundred and twenty-eight numbers. Not a picture. Not a scan. A list of measurements — and that's what your phone actually compares when you unlock it with your face. He Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-face-is-now-128-numbers-and-one-selfie-cant-prove-its-you

The last time a website asked you to "verify your age," it might have collected your full name, your government I.D. number, your birthday, and your I.P. address — all to answer a single yes-or-no question. Whether you're Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/that-quick-age-check-it-just-took-your-id-face-and-birthday

A man lost custody of his two kids. He lost his job. He lost his home. And he spent two months locked up — all because a computer said his face was an eighty-five percent match to someone in a surveillance video. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/cops-lost-his-kids-over-an-85-guess-your-face-could-be-next

You went to set up a game console for your kid. You typed in a birthday. Maybe you held up a driver's license to a camera. And in that moment, a company you've never heard of took a copy of your face — and kept it. If y Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/you-verified-your-kids-age-a-stranger-now-has-your-face

Picture this. You're walking down a street in Dublin. You haven't done anything wrong. A police officer walks past, body camera running. Your face is now recorded. And under a new bill, that footage of you — an innocent p Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-face-their-database-the-body-cam-question-nobodys-asking

When an app flashes those two little words — "Identity Verified" — you think one thing happened. Three things actually did. And here's what'll keep you up tonight: a lot of apps quietly skip one of th Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/verified-doesnt-mean-what-you-think-its-3-checks-and-apps-skip-one

Imagine two people standing side by side. They hand the exact same facial recognition system the exact same kind of photo. For one of them, the system is wrong about a hundred times more often than for the other. And the Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-face-their-algorithm-why-a-1-in-a-million-id-check-fails-100x-more-often-on

The next big scam won't ask for your password. It'll ask you to verify your work identity — right on your phone. And most people won't be able to tell the fake from the real thing. If you've ever tapped your phone to ap Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-face-is-about-to-approve-a-50-000-wire-scammers-already-know-it

That smart camera in your last video meeting? In Europe, if it was reading your face to guess whether you looked bored, tired, or unconvinced — that's now illegal. Not frowned upon. Not against company policy. Against the Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-meeting-room-ai-has-been-grading-your-face-europe-just-made-it-a-crime

A phishing platform called EvilTokens broke into more than three hundred and forty Microsoft companies in just five weeks. And every one of those break-ins happened after the victim typed the right password and approved t Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-phone-is-about-to-buzz-with-a-fake-login-heres-what-to-do

When you unlock your phone with your face, then press your thumb to a reader at work, you're not using two versions of the same technology. You're using two completely different biological systems — measured in completely different ways, with Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/fingerprint-face-iris-palm-4-things-biometric-scan-really-means-before-you-hand-

Your phone may already be carrying code that can recognize human faces. You didn't install it on purpose. You didn't get a notice. And for months, the company that put it there didn't say a word. Acc Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/meta-slipped-face-scanning-code-onto-your-phone-and-forgot-to-mention-it

Picture this. You show up to work, press your finger to a scanner, and you're clocked in. You agreed to it when you started the job. You signed the form. And a privacy regulator just said — that agreement doesn't count. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-boss-wants-your-fingerprint-to-clock-in-one-country-just-said-no

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