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Meta says it's now using A.I. to guess the age of Instagram users around the world. If the system decides you're a teenager, it can lock your account into teen mode. That's true even if you typed in...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/instagram-age-verification-ai-can-lock-adults-in-teen-mode-podcast

Europe's own app for checking a child's age online was cracked in under two minutes. It was the Commission's showpiece, built to prove that you could protect kids and protect privacy at the same time.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/minimum-act-score-colleges-vary-eu-social-media-age-is-15-podcast

A hacker once drove through the streets of San Francisco with an antenna and pulled data off U.S. passport cards, without anyone opening a wallet. And the chip inside your passport book holds something more personal...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/biometric-passport-chip-locks-the-document-not-the-face-podcast

A school in Sweden once used facial recognition to take attendance for just twenty-two high-school students. The trial lasted three weeks. Regulators still fined the town about twenty thousand...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/facial-recognition-time-attendance-kids-enter-state-systems-podcast

The F.D.A. has authorized fruit-flavored vapes, including mango and blueberry. Now the agency says those vapes don't need a built-in age check to get the green light. The device itself doesn't have...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/age-verification-fda-lets-flavored-vapes-skip-the-kid-lock-podcast

Kazakhstan wants to scan the face of every student, in every school, across the entire country. And right now, there's no law saying when that data has to be deleted. Not after a year. Not after...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/facial-recognition-every-kazakh-school-no-deletion-date-podcast

Here's a number that stopped me cold. When researchers tested how well people catch biometric fakes, humans got it right only sixty-one percent of the time. According to research cited by Mitek...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/fake-id-vs-real-id-7-tells-and-why-a-great-hologram-lies-podcast

Investigators say one handwritten script, titled "Lawyer Call," helped steal more than a hundred million dollars. Its job wasn't to fool anyone with fancy technology. Its job was to make an employee...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/stolen-identity-lawyer-fake-boss-calls-tied-to-129m-fraud-podcast

Police aren't the ones about to scan thousands of faces in West Bengal. Teachers are. The state plans to start with a hundred government and aided schools, with a statewide rollout targeted for January of twenty...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/facial-recognition-attendance-west-bengal-scans-kids-faces-podcast

Pornhub left Australia in March because it said handing over your ID to prove your age was too risky. Now it's back. Nothing in the law changed. What changed is that Apple...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/age-verification-adult-site-is-back-apple-holds-age-data-podcast