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Pakistan's internet regulator stood in front of a high court and admitted something most parents would never guess. No law in the country requires a social media app to check how old your child is....

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/age-verification-pakistan-says-no-law-makes-apps-check-kids

Your passport photo takes about thirty seconds at the pharmacy counter. But that little square of your face can end up in a government collection that police can search when they're hunting for a suspect.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/where-to-get-a-passport-photo-3-questions-before-the-flash

In 2019, a homeless man in Los Angeles walked into a bank to report that someone was using his name. He had his real I.D. and his real Social Security card in his hand. He walked out in handcuffs.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/report-identity-theft-wrong-first-stop-jailed-man-428-days

Robert Dillon had a full beard and a thick mustache. The man police were looking for was clean-shaven. A computer matched them anyway — and Dillon, a Florida dad, ended up arrested for a crime more...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/facial-recognition-florida-dad-jailed-for-strangers-crime

Picture a brand-new TikTok account. Researchers told it the user was thirteen years old. Then they watched what the app served up. That young account ran into harmful videos...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/tiktok-age-verification-alabama-proves-a-form-isnt-a-fence

A notarized copy of your birth certificate can get you turned away at the D.M.V. Stamped, signed, perfectly official-looking. Rejected. And the logic behind that rejection is the same logic that could...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/proof-of-identity-3-tiers-that-decide-who-gets-turned-away

Christopher Gatlin spent about seventeen months behind bars. The thing that first pointed police to him? A computer's guess, built from a blurry frame of surveillance video at a St. Louis train...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/facial-st-louis-one-number-jailed-wrong-man-17-months

In South Korea, one fire in one government data center knocked more than six hundred public systems offline. By late September, officials had brought back only about sixty of them. That's roughly...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/biometric-access-bangladeshs-748m-id-has-no-clear-backup

When you switch off Face ID on your iPhone, your face doesn't go anywhere. A mathematical map of it stays sealed inside the phone. Many people who've turned it off have no idea it's still there.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/how-to-reset-face-id-turning-it-off-leaves-the-face-map

Across the U.S., roughly half of all states now require strict age checks online. And not one of those checks stops a grown adult from messaging your kid while pretending to be sixteen. That's not a...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/age-verification-law-predators-pass-it-then-message-kids