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Picture this. A research paper clears peer review — not one expert, but three or more sign off on it. And buried inside are more than a hundred citations that point to studies that simply never existed. Researchers analyz

You walked up to a friend's front door last week. You rang the bell. And in that moment, a camera may have scanned your face — and turned it into something a company can keep forever. You never agreed to that. You may not have even known it h

In Japan, thousands of train commuters are now walking through ticket gates without a ticket, a card, or a phone. They just walk. The gate reads their face and lets them through.

A group of hackers spent all of last year targeting banks — and they never once stole a password. Instead, they called the help desk. They pretended to be an employee locked out of their account. And they talked I.T. supp

Two trained investigators sit down to compare the same two photographs. Same lighting. Same screen. Same faces. One says, "That's definitely him." The other says, "I'm honestly not sure." And here's the part that stops yo

You can change your password a thousand times. You will never change your fingerprint. And you'll only ever get one face. That single fact is the thing most of us never stop to consider before we pres

A piece of malware can now copy your face — not your password, not your card number, your actual face — and use it to walk into your bank account. Security researchers at Zimperium found it running across five countries ri

Your next car might watch your eyes the whole time you drive. It could track when your eyelids droop, where your gaze wanders, and how alert you are behind the wheel. And right now, nobody can tell yo

Fake passports and driver's licenses made by artificial intelligence are the fastest-growing fraud in the world right now. Researchers say this kind of document forgery is set to jump nearly forty times over in a single y

Your fingerprint never actually pays for anything. When you tap your finger to send money, that fingerprint doesn't reach your bank. It never leaves your phone. The thing you think is "the payment" is Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-fingerprint-never-touches-your-bank-heres-what-actually-approves-that-payme

When a website asks if you're eighteen, it doesn't actually need your name. It doesn't need your address, your birthdate, or a scan of your driver's license. It just needs a yes or a no. But most site Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/why-upload-your-id-is-the-wrong-answer-to-are-you-18

Only about one in three Europeans says they actually plan to use it. The digital I.D. wallet that could replace the plastic card in your pocket by late next year — most people don't want it yet. And f Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-phone-becomes-your-passport-in-2026-heres-what-could-go-very-wrong

Imagine you're at a friend's birthday party. Someone across the room is wearing a normal-looking pair of glasses. And those glasses just logged your face — quietly, permanently — and you'll never know Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/metas-new-glasses-can-log-your-face-at-a-party-and-youll-never-know

Your boss might have a file on your face. Your fingerprint. Your voice. Maybe even a scan of your eyes. And most workers who clock in with their thumb every morning can't tell you where that data goes Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-face-at-work-is-now-a-file-youve-never-seen

Picture this. You walk in to get your national I.D. photo taken. And because your skin is darker, the camera struggles to see you clearly. Meanwhile, someone with lighter skin standing right behind you gets told the light Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/the-blurry-photo-from-2015-that-could-lock-you-out-of-your-own-life

There might be someone at a company right now with access to the payroll system, the source code, the customer database — and that someone was never a real person to begin with. Not a hacker who stole a login. An entire em Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/the-coworker-with-full-access-to-your-data-may-not-be-a-real-person

You have exactly one face. No spare. No backup. And if someone copies the pattern of it — the distance between your eyes, the shape of your jaw — you can't reset it like a password. A court just said Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/you-only-have-one-face-a-court-just-ruled-you-get-to-control-it

Last month, six hundred and eleven million payments in India got approved by someone's face or fingerprint. No PIN. No password. Just a glance or a touch. And here's the part that should make you sit Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-face-just-approved-611-million-payments-and-fraudsters-are-practicing

Only about a third of people can spot a deepfake — even after someone warns them one's coming. When nobody warns them at all, most still get fooled. Those aren't numbers from some distant lab. Researc Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/that-insurance-rep-on-video-might-be-a-deepfake-and-your-medical-file-is-the-pri

A convincing fake of your boss's voice — the exact tone, the exact urgency — now costs about a dollar and thirty-three cents to make. Not thousands. Not a Hollywood studio. Roughly the price of a candy bar. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/that-urgent-call-from-your-boss-the-voice-is-fake-and-it-cost-1-33-to-make

In a test where two thousand people were told — flat out — to look for fakes, only one in a thousand could tell them all apart. One. In. A. Thousand. And these weren't people caught off guard — they kne Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/only-1-in-1-000-people-can-spot-a-deepfake-heres-the-30-second-habit-that-actual

Some of these accounts have tens of thousands of followers. Thirty-one thousand. Eighty-eight thousand. And the person in the videos? He doesn't exist. Not a single frame of him is real. If you've ever gotten a flirty m Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/that-hot-stranger-sliding-into-your-dms-probably-40-000-lines-of-code

Twenty-eight states now want proof of your kid's age before they download a single app. And to prove that age, someone has to hand over an I.D. — or personal data — to the app store itself. Texas star Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/before-your-kid-downloads-another-app-28-states-want-your-id-and-your-data

Twenty photos. Fifteen minutes. That's all a stranger needs to turn your child's birthday picture into something you can't unsee. According to Britain's Internet Watch Foundation, A.I.-generated child abuse videos jumped Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-kids-birthday-photo-is-all-a-stranger-needs-and-it-takes-15-minutes

Nearly nine in ten older adults say they're worried about A.I. scams — voice cloning, fake videos, a stranger wearing a loved one's face. But almost all of them are bracing for the wrong threat. They're learning to spot the fake. And that's e Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/that-grandson-begging-you-for-money-tonight-hang-up-and-call-him-back