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Two college students at Harvard put on a pair of ordinary-looking smart glasses. They walked up to strangers. And within seconds, their system could pull up a stranger's name, home address, phone number, and the names...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/facial-recognition-glasses-1-glance-pulls-a-home-address

Seventy thousand people uploaded a photo of their government I.D. to Discord, just to prove how old they were. In a breach last year, those images got out. Now Discord is rolling out age checks again.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/social-media-age-verification-laws-3-checks-3-data-risks

That serious face you're forced to make in your passport photo? It's not because some clerk wants you to look intimidating. It's because a machine has to measure your face — not recognize it. And the second you smile, you break the math it...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/passport-photo-requirements-why-a-smile-breaks-the-math

A man in Inner Mongolia got a video call from a friend. He could see his friend's face. He could hear his voice. The friend needed money for a business deposit — urgent, just...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/deepfake-video-call-police-warn-after-622-000-theft

According to survey data from U.S. schools, as many as two hundred and twenty-five thousand deepfake nudes may have circulated in a single school year. Not of celebrities. Of ordinary students — kids in grades six...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/deepfake-ai-app-one-photo-225-000-school-fakes

A photographer in Bentonville, Arkansas took a normal photo of a little girl. A professional shoot. She was fully dressed. Then someone fed that photo into an A.I. chatbot and typed a command to strip her clothes off.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/deepfake-lawsuit-grok-turned-a-clothed-photo-into-abuse

A middle school student in Henderson is now facing charges. Police say the student used artificial intelligence to create explicit fake images of classmates — and then shared them. Not a celebrity. Not a stranger online.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/ai-deepfake-laws-15-736-victims-in-six-months

An algorithm can be ninety-nine point nine percent accurate in a lab — and still put an innocent person in jail. Fourteen people in the United States have been wrongfully arrested because police trusted a face-matching...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/facial-recognition-software-14-wrongful-arrests-so-far

Two fourteen-year-olds. One laptop. Three hundred and fifty fake nude images of their own classmates. According to reporting on a Pennsylvania case from March of twenty twenty-six, these weren't hardened criminals. They...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/deepfake-technology-350-fake-nudes-made-by-two-14-year-olds

You pointed your phone at your face to make a basketball avatar. Thirteen photos, a quick spin of your head, and there you were in the game. But according to a lawsuit filed against Amazon, those photos didn't just become a cartoon version...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/2k-face-scan-13-photos-amazon-stores-indefinitely