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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

A facial match can read ninety-four percent — and still cost a company thirty-five million euros. Not because the match was wrong. Because nobody wrote down why they trusted it. That gap, between a nu Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-94-face-match-just-became-a-35m-problem

When your kid registers for a fencing tournament, they now have to open a camera and hold up a birth certificate. A computer reads the date, confirms their age, and lets them in. But nobody in that pr Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-face-your-kids-passport-their-database-the-age-check-question-nobody-answer

A finance worker sat down for a video call with the company's chief financial officer. Senior managers were on the screen too. By the end of that call, the worker had wired out twenty-five million dol Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/he-wired-25m-after-a-video-call-with-his-boss-his-boss-wasnt-there

A scammer needs just three seconds of your voice. Three seconds — a clip from a voicemail, a social media video, a quick hello. That's all it takes to clone you well enough to fool the people who love you most. If you'v Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-daughters-voice-just-called-begging-for-money-it-wasnt-her

You know that little checkbox that asks if you're over eighteen? On a growing number of websites, that checkbox is quietly becoming a request for your government I.D. — and a copy of your face. And once that data lands in Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-face-cant-be-reset-the-hidden-cost-of-proving-youre-over-18-online

Three seconds. That's all a scammer needs of your child's voice to clone it. Not three minutes. Not a recorded phone call. Three seconds of audio — pulled from a video they posted online — is now enough to recreate their Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/that-frantic-call-from-your-kid-it-might-be-a-scammer-with-3-seconds-of-their-vo

When a website tries to guess your teenager's age from a selfie, it's wrong by more than a year on average. And that's on a good day — perfect lighting, clear photo, nothing in the way. That tiny marg Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-kids-face-their-data-the-age-check-trap-nobody-warned-you-about

A man in Kentucky spent forty-five days in jail. Not for a crime in the usual sense. He submitted a photo to a court — and a judge decided that picture was fake. This is the cas Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/fake-photo-real-jail-45-days-for-the-lie-that-fooled-a-judge

Scammers don't need a recording of your whole conversation anymore. They need about three seconds of your voice. Three seconds — a voicemail greeting, a clip from a video you posted — and they can build a copy that fools Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/moms-voice-just-called-begging-for-money-it-wasnt-her

Imagine a security system gives you a ninety-five percent face match. Ninety-five percent confident it's really you. And yet — the face the camera saw was never real to begin with. A fraudster swapped the image before the Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/that-95-face-match-could-be-a-total-lie-heres-the-trick-fooling-the-camera

At a high school in New Jersey, more than thirty girls found out that fake nude images of them were circulating online. Not drawings. Not edits anyone could spot. Photorealistic images, made by artificial intelligence, fr Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-kids-yearbook-photo-is-all-a-stranger-needs-now