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Regulators in the Philippines just shut down a company that was scanning people's eyes in exchange for cryptocurrency. The national privacy watchdog said the consent was worthless — because people only agreed to hand over

You've probably watched a video and thought, that face looks real, so it must be real. But the face is actually the easiest part of a fake to get right. The lie hides somewhere you're not looking — the mouth, the shadows, and the tiny edges a

There's a machine that can find a tattoo in a crowd of a hundred thousand photos — but it's not allowed to tell you whose tattoo it is. A human being has to make that call. And that rule isn't a flaw

In Egypt, four thousand people filed the same complaint. Someone had registered a phone line in their name — without them ever knowing. A stranger, walking around with a SIM card tied to your identity.

Nine different companies can now look at your face and identify you with almost the same accuracy. Not the top one. Not the expensive one. Nine of them — clustered so close together you can barely tell them apart.

Software engineering interviews are now the single most cheated-on part of hiring. In a recent study, nearly half of technical interviews showed signs of A.I. cheating. Compare that to sales roles, where it was closer to one in eight.

That "ninety-nine percent match" flashing on a screen? It doesn't mean what almost everyone thinks it means. A face recognition system can hand you a ninety-five percent match, and that number tells you nothing about whet

More than five hundred thousand deepfake videos spread across the internet in 2025. That's up about five hundred and fifty percent since 2023. But here's the strange part — with all those fakes floodi

One in every twenty-five people trying to verify their identity online right now is pretending to be someone else. And starting late next August, your kid's Xbox is going to ask your family to prove your age — with a self

When your card gets declined at the store, you probably blame your bank — or your balance. But there's a growing chance the real reason is invisible. A silent system watched how you typed, how you hel

A message pops up on an app you open every single day. "Verify your age. Upload your I.D. or take a selfie." It looks official. And that's exactly the problem. If you've ever tapped through a permission screen without r

That urgent video call from your boss — the one asking you to wire money right now? Your eyes can no longer tell you if it's real. And that's not paranoia. According to Biometric Update, global losses from deepfake fraud have hit three point

When a video looks absolutely perfect — flawless lighting, crisp detail, nothing out of place — that's exactly when you should trust it less. Not more. According to Hany Farid, a professor at U.C. Berkeley who studies fake media for a living,

A company renews a work visa for an employee it already sponsors. Same worker. Same job. Nothing's changed. And now that renewal costs four thousand dollars more than it did last month. No warning. No grace period. Just a

The next time you call Walmart's customer service line and hear "this call may be recorded" — that recording might not just be saved. A new lawsuit says Walmart turned those calls into voiceprints — permanent voice signat

Your phone has quietly scanned thousands of faces from your photo library. You never signed a form. You never clicked "yes." And right now, two of the biggest phone makers on Earth are getting complet

Two high school students allegedly used artificial intelligence to create hundreds of fake explicit images of their female classmates. And when the school found out — months before police got involved — they did almost no

Every time an app asks for your driver's license, you hand over everything on it. Your name. Your address. Your birthday. Your photo. Your license number. But what if the app only actually needed to know one thing — like whether you're over t

A drone that costs about as much as a nice dinner out can now follow you around your own house. It glides through doorways. It steers around lamps. And it uses your face to keep tracking you — with no pilot holding the co

Researchers asked people to chat with an artificial-intelligence bot about politics. Just chat. By the end of the conversation, some of those people had shifted their political preference by about ten

There's a police case in Pune, India, where the killer's face was never visible. He wore a hoodie the entire time. And still — investigators identified him by the one thing he couldn't hide. The way he walked. If you've

Right now, somewhere on the internet, there might be a system quietly copying every face it can find — pulling photos from social media, from public cameras, from anywhere — to build a giant facial recognition database. And as of last year, i

Think about the last app you downloaded. Before you could look around — before you saw a single screen — it asked you to scan your driver's license and take a selfie. When did signing up start with proving who you are? If

Nearly seven in ten people say they regularly stop and wonder whether something they're looking at online is even real. And starting this August, Europe has a law that's supposed to fix that. A rule t

Imagine standing in line to vote. You've done it before. You're registered. You step up, put your finger on the scanner — and it says no match. Now imagine there's no backup plan for what happens next.