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A security researcher just beat a two-million-euro age verification app using a browser extension he built with A.I. And here's the part that stings — he did it twice. Once in April. Then again three

That little "try on these glasses" button on the eyewear website? The moment you clicked it, software mapped your face at four hundred and sixty-eight separate points. Not a photo. A measurement. The distance between your

The exact same scan of your face can be perfectly legal in one room and worth five thousand dollars in a lawsuit in another. Same measurements. Same technology. But move it from a doctor's office to a shopping website, an

You already trust it. Every day, your phone downloads an update, checks a little digital signature, sees a green checkmark, and installs it. No questions asked. But security researchers say attackers have figured out how to fake that checkmar

The next time you walk through a border checkpoint and a camera snaps your face, here's something the sign won't tell you. That photo can sit in a government database for up to seventy-five years. Not seventy-five days. Seventy-five years.

There's a version of you being built right now. Not stolen — built. It has your kind of name, a real-looking Social Security number, and a credit history that's been growing quietly for months. And a bank already believes it's a person.

The exact same face scan can be perfectly legal in one room and against the law in the room next door. Not because the technology changed. Because of where you were standing when it happened.

When you use one of those virtual try-on tools to see how a pair of glasses looks on your face — the app is scanning the exact geometry of your face. And a company just tried to argue that because those glasses can be prescription, they didn'

When your kid takes a selfie video to prove they're old enough for a chat app, that app isn't confirming who they are. It's making a guess. A probability. And right now, two of the biggest platforms y

A candidate for county executive in St. Charles, Missouri, paid for a political attack ad. The people in the video? They weren't filmed. They were generated by a computer. And under Missouri law, nobo

The next time you walk into a grocery store, a camera might turn your face into a string of code before you reach the produce aisle. In downtown Spokane, one discount grocery is already doing exactly that — measuring the

Try on a pair of glasses online — the kind where you point your camera at your face and watch the frames appear? A federal court just ruled that a company doing exactly that can be sued for scanning your face without permission.

You uploaded a selfie to try on some glasses. Just to see how the frames would look. But that photo? It didn't stay a photo. In the split second between your upload and the preview, invisible software turned your face into a string of numbers

That "quick selfie to verify it's really you"? Scammers can now fake that too. According to LexisNexis Risk Solutions, one in every hundred identity checks that fails now involves a deepfake — a fake document, a fake phot

You tried on a pair of glasses online. You clicked the little button that says "see how these look on you." Your webcam turned on, mapped your face, and showed you the frames. A federal court just ruled that scan wasn't healthcare — it was a

A hiring algorithm can filter out more than a quarter of Black applicants — and starting next August, an A.I. system doing exactly that can enter the European market with no record of where its training data came from, and no proof it was eve

When you take a selfie to prove who you are — to open a bank account, or unlock a service — you probably think the app is just checking whether your face matches your ID. But that selfie is only one of at least four separ

The best deepfake detector doesn't look at the face at all. It watches how the face moves. And it turns out the most convincing fake video in the world gives itself away — not in the skin, not in the eyes, but in the motion between one frame

More than a third of American teenagers say someone made a fake nude of them — without their consent. That's not a headline about celebrities. That's kids in ordinary schools, and the tools used to do it were sitting on the App Store.

Picture this. You clock in at work every morning by scanning your fingerprint. You do it twice a day for five years. That's about twenty-six hundred scans of your body. And a federal court just decided that all of those scans count as one sin

You walked into a Wegmans this year, picked up your groceries, and a camera turned your face into a string of numbers. You were never told. Wegmans admitted it — a handful of its stores were using facial recognition, quie

Last month in Perth, Australia, a police van drove down public streets and scanned the faces of everyone who walked past. In one week, it captured more than a hundred and thirty thousand faces. And th

There's a piece of malware called GoldPickaxe that doesn't want your password. It wants a video of your face. And once it has that, there's nothing you can do to take it back — because unlike a passwo

The next time you walk into a Grocery Outlet in the Bay Area, a camera may scan your face before you even touch a shopping basket. You won't get a warning. You won't sign anything. And in California, the store doesn't hav

Fifty million phones were carrying finished facial-recognition code — and almost nobody who installed the app knew it was there. It could spot a face. It could turn that face into a string of numbers. It could match that