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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

The best deepfakes don't get caught on the face. A fake video can look absolutely perfect on a single frame — flawless skin, natural expression, eyes that move just right. It gives itself away in the Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/that-urgent-video-from-your-boss-your-eyes-cant-catch-the-fake-heres-what-can

The next time you walk up to airport security, the camera might already know your face. At more than half the world's airports right now, a scan can replace your boarding pass and your I.D. And most t Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-face-is-your-new-boarding-pass-and-nobody-told-you-that-you-can-say-no

Starting July first, an adult website in Iowa is supposed to check your ID before letting you in. But the law that requires it never says where your driver's license goes after that. Not who holds it. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/iowa-wants-your-drivers-license-nobody-will-say-where-it-goes

At a staff meeting this past April, a lawyer for Elon Musk's A.I. company stood up and told employees the firm needed their faces and voices. Not for a badge. To train A.I. avatars — digital character Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-face-at-work-is-now-ai-training-data-and-you-probably-already-said-yes

Judy Skene was an elderly widow with no children. She saw a video on Facebook. In it, Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney was promoting a crypto investment. The Prime Minister nev Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/mom-dont-wire-that-money-the-6-word-rule-that-stops-a-1m-deepfake-cold

A hundred million times, someone has walked through an Indian airport and let a camera be their boarding pass. No paper. No ID held up to a gate agent. Just a face — scanned, matched, and waved through. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-face-is-now-your-boarding-pass-good-luck-getting-it-back