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Someone falls in love online. They send money. And the face they trusted this whole time? It belongs to a total stranger who never knew their photo was stolen. The scary part isn't that this happens. It's how easily it...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/reverse-image-search-why-a-95-match-proves-nothing

You buy a pair of glasses that promise to make you invisible to facial recognition. You put them on. And every single camera still knows exactly who you are. Independent testers at I.P.V.M. tried this with glasses...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/anti-facial-recognition-glasses-5-of-5-cameras-still-matched

Right now, YouTube is quietly guessing how old you are. Not by asking. Not by checking an I.D. It's reading what you searched, what you watched, and how fast you scroll — years of your activity — and using that to decide if you're an adult...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/youtube-age-verification-when-ai-guesses-wrong-faces-pay

Investigators pulled more than a hundred thousand faces out of terrorist propaganda videos. Before a single human looked at any of them, software threw away ninety-four out of every hundred. That's...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/police-facial-recognition-ai-tossed-94-of-108-000-faces

One in four women in the Dutch parliament has had her face pasted into a fake pornographic video. Not a threat. Not a warning. Something that already happened — to elected lawmakers, distributed and viewed tens of...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/deepfake-15-dutch-lawmakers-demand-a-crackdown

Walk into a pub in England now, order a pint, and the bartender might not ask for your driver's license. Instead, you tap your phone. A certified app confirms you're over eighteen — and here's the...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/age-verification-uk-pubs-now-accept-a-phone-tap-not-id

A printed photograph — just paper and ink — can unlock a shocking number of facial recognition systems. Not a blurry one. A crisp, high-quality print of someone's face, pulled off the internet, held up to a camera.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/biometric-authentication-40-of-systems-a-photo-can-fool

Most people who get their identity stolen don't find out for four months. Not four days. Four months. According to academic research on financial crime, nearly fifty-eight percent of victims don't...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/how-to-protect-yourself-from-identity-theft-6-free-moves

Pick up the phone. Say "hello." Nobody answers. The line goes dead. You think — wrong number. But security researchers say that silence wasn't empty. In those few seconds, someone may have just stolen your voice.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/ai-voice-cloning-scam-3-seconds-of-audio-steals-a-voice

A British regulator just told Pornhub that hiring Apple wasn't enough. The company said it would use Apple's system to check that users are over eighteen. And the regulator's response was — that's...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/age-verification-ofcoms-18m-pornography-crackdown