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Six times in two years. India's government tried to force smartphone makers to pre-install its national biometric I.D. app on every phone sold in the country. Six times, Apple and Samsung said no. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/india-tried-6-times-to-force-a-biometric-app-on-your-phone-apple-and-samsung-jus

Only one in a thousand people can reliably tell a deepfake from the real thing. Not one in ten. Not one in a hundred. One in a thousand. And the reason isn't Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/only-1-in-1-000-people-can-spot-a-deepfake-heres-the-microsecond-gap-your-brain-

One hundred and seventy-nine prisoners walked out of jails across England and Wales between April of last year and March of this year. Not through tunnels. Not over walls. Staff released them by mist Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/179-prisoners-walked-free-the-fix-is-watching-your-face

A kit that costs about twelve dollars on Telegram can now fool the identity checks most banks use to verify you're a real person. Twelve dollars. That's less than a movie ticket. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/12-telegram-kits-are-gutting-your-banks-biometric-defenses

The last time you took a selfie to verify your identity on an app, you probably thought the system was doing one thing — checking whether your face matched your photo. It wasn't. Before that match ev Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-selfie-passes-4-secret-tests-before-anyone-checks-your-face

The European Commission declared its age verification app ready to roll out across the entire bloc. Security researchers broke through its core protections in about two minutes. Not two hours. Not tw Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/eus-age-check-app-declared-ready-researchers-cracked-it-in-2-minutes

A security researcher walked into the R.S.A.C. conference in twenty twenty-six wearing a pair of Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses. Within seconds, those glasses — paired with a commercial facial recognition system — identified Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/metas-smart-glasses-can-id-strangers-in-seconds-75-groups-say-kill-it-now

Seventy thousand people uploaded photos of their government I.D.s to Discord. They weren't applying for a job or opening a bank account. They were just trying to prove they were eighteen. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/discord-leaked-70-000-ids-answering-one-simple-question-are-you-18

A wireless carrier just launched a service that clones your voice and places calls from your real phone number. Not a research demo. Not a startup pitch deck. A Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/call-to-confirm-is-dead-carrier-level-voice-cloning-killed-it

In April of this year, a man in Ohio became the first person convicted under the federal TAKE IT DOWN Act. He'd used A.I. to generate non-consensual intimate images of adults and children in his own neighborhood. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/deepfakes-are-criminal-cases-now-most-investigators-still-cant-prove-a-photo-is-

The European Union launched a brand-new age verification app on 04-14-2026 . Someone bypassed it in under two minutes. Not with a sophisticated hack. N Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/one-boolean-flag-broke-the-eus-age-check-the-10-4b-industry-has-the-same-flaw

In 2024 , a finance employee at Arup, a major U.K. engineering firm, joined a video call with several senior leaders. Every face on screen looked right. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/the-face-matched-the-voice-matched-the-person-never-existed

A finance worker in Hong Kong got a phishing email claiming to be from his company's chief financial officer in the U.K. He didn't buy it. Then he joined a video call, saw the C.F.O.'s face, saw othe Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/the-faces-were-fake-the-25-million-was-real

Sixty percent of people say they're confident they can spot a deepfake. According to a 2024 study cited by Florida Realtors, only zero point one percent actually can. That means the people who feel m Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/a-deepfake-fooled-a-notary-on-a-live-call-the-ears-gave-it-away

A finance worker in Hong Kong joined a video call with his chief financial officer and several colleagues. He recognized their faces. He heard their voices. Over the course of th Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/a-fake-cfo-stole-25-6m-the-real-victim-is-your-evidence-process

A judge in Alameda County, California threw out an entire civil case after discovering that videotaped witness testimony was a deepfake. Not a blurry, glitchy fake you'd catch on a second watch. A sy Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/guilty-until-proven-real-how-deepfakes-broke-the-rules-of-evidence

A judge looks at an investigator and asks one question. "What's your false match rate?" The investigator has fifteen years of experience comparing faces. But they don't have a nu Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/facial-comparisons-dna-moment-is-here-most-investigators-arent-ready

Nearly all U.S. states — forty-seven out of fifty — have now passed some form of deepfake legislation. And according to compliance tracking data, more than four out of five of those laws landed in just the last two years Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/courts-wont-ask-if-you-spotted-the-deepfake-theyll-ask-if-you-even-looked

An N.B.C. News investigation searched the names of thirty-six well-known female celebrities on Google and Bing. On Google, thirty-four of those searches returned nonconsensual deepfake pornography right at the top of the Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/prove-its-not-a-deepfake-the-evidence-challenge-most-investigators-will-lose

A finance worker in Hong Kong joins a video call with colleagues. The C.F.O. is there. Other team members are there. Faces visible, voices familiar. By the end of that call, the worker has wired twen Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/the-deepfake-you-should-fear-doesnt-have-a-face

A Pennsylvania state police corporal just pleaded guilty to creating three thousand deepfake pornography images. Three thousand. And the thing that caught him wasn't an investigation. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/a-cop-made-3-000-deepfake-porn-images-a-bandwidth-spike-caught-him-no-investigat

A Pennsylvania state trooper just pleaded guilty to creating three thousand deepfake images. He built them using driver's license photos and law enforcement databases — the same systems police use every day to identify s Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/the-cop-who-made-3-000-deepfakes-exposed-a-bigger-problem-than-deepfakes

Every time your phone unlocks with a glance, it isn't recognizing your face. It's measuring the distance between two points in a space with a hundred and twenty-eight dimensions. And that distance ca Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/that-facial-match-score-is-lying-to-your-face

A retiree in Saskatchewan handed over three thousand dollars to someone she believed was Prime Minister Mark Carney. She watched a video of him endorsing a cryptocurrency investment. His face, his vo Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/every-image-is-guilty-until-proven-authentic

A billion dollars. That's how much Americans lost to deepfake fraud this year alone. Triple what it was just twelve months ago. And the people behind it? M Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/deepfake-fraud-tripled-to-1-1b-your-evidence-workflow-didnt