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Missouri has built a free phone app that lets a store clerk scan the back of your driver's license. According to the state, the app checks your age and then forgets you. Nothing gets stored, sent,...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/missouri-age-verification-app-scans-ids-to-shield-children

A man named Robert Dillon spent more than eighty days in jail. The police said a computer was ninety-three percent sure he was the suspect. He was three hundred miles from the crime scene.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/biometric-facial-recognition-1-bad-match-80-days-in-jail

Georgia just got the green light to enforce a law that makes social media companies figure out how old you are. And a birthday you type into a box no longer counts as proof. If you've ever signed up...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/age-verification-georgia-id-scanning-could-reach-all-adults

A man walked into a bank to report that someone had stolen his identity. The bank called the police on him. William Woods then spent four hundred and twenty-eight days in county jail, and another...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/identity-theft-affidavit-3-mistakes-that-sink-victims

In Australia, being a grown-up isn't enough anymore. You have to prove it. And starting 06/27/2026 , that includes signed-in users of Google and Bing.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/age-verification-google-and-bing-now-check-aussie-adults

Angela Lipps was babysitting her neighbor's kids when police came to arrest her. She's a fifty-year-old grandmother of five from Tennessee. She would spend the next six months behind bars, for...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/face-bank-wrong-identity-match-jails-grandmother-6-months

A thirteen-year-old can type a fake birthday into an app in about three seconds. To stop that, a lot of websites now want something far more personal from everyone else. Your face.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/apple-age-verification-app-store-hides-kids-birth-dates

Somewhere right now, a fan is streaming what sounds like a brand-new song from an artist they love. The voice is right. The style is right. But the artist never sang a single...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/deepfake-laws-by-state-sony-fights-260-000-ai-fake-songs

According to one analysis of State Department photo reviews, roughly one in four passport photos gets rejected. Most of those people didn't do anything wrong with their face. They smiled.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/passport-photo-guidelines-why-1-in-4-photos-get-rejected

A parent in New York sits down to help their fourteen-year-old open a social media account. Soon, the app may ask the kid to prove their age. And then it may ask the parent to prove who they are, too.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/social-media-age-verification-apps-want-parents-ids-next