CaraComp Insider

A shopper walked into a Sainsbury's store, picked up their groceries, and got pulled aside as a suspected thief. They hadn't stolen anything. A camera scanned their face, matched it to a watchlist,...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/facial-recognition-camera-200-sainsburys-stores-scan-your-face

When your bank asks for a selfie, it's not really checking your face against your I.D. It's checking whether a real, three-dimensional human being is holding that I.D. right now — not a printed photo, not a recorded...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/kyc-process-why-the-bank-selfie-maps-68-face-points

Somebody could steal your identity and hand it to the police — and the first thing you'd know about it is a warrant with your name on it. Not a drained bank account. Not a fraud alert. A judge ordering your arrest for a...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/how-to-prevent-identity-theft-4-kinds-1-leads-to-jail

That little box you click that says "I am eighteen"? In Europe, it's about to disappear. Instead, you might be asked to open an app and scan your actual passport just to log into a social network.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/eu-age-verification-id-scans-replace-the-online-checkbox

A photo you posted at fifteen — a school picture, a beach day, a smile you forgot about — is all someone needs now. Researchers in Australia surveyed nearly nineteen hundred teenagers. They found...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/deepfake-1-in-4-teen-abuse-cases-one-photo-enough

A shopper walked into a Sainsbury's in London. A camera at the door scanned her face. And within moments, the system flagged her as a shoplifter. She wasn't one. She'd done nothing wrong. If you've ever picked up milk...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/facial-recognition-camera-face-recognition-in-200-stores

Discord added a face scan to keep kids safe — but that same kind of check has a strange blind spot. It's often worse at recognizing young adults than older ones. So a nineteen-year-old can get flagged, while a mature-looking teenager slips...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/age-verification-discord-uses-10-second-scan-misses-adults

When a fourteen-year-old named Sewell Setzer the third asked an app to prove he was old enough to use it, no one imagined where that data would eventually lead. On...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/character-ai-age-verification-a-teens-id-in-a-database

It takes three seconds. Three seconds of someone's voice — pulled from a video, a voicemail, a social post — and a scammer can make that person say anything. In Greece, a gang used exactly that trick to steal more than a million euros from...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/ai-voice-cloning-fake-relatives-cost-greeks-1-million

The phone rings at your desk. It's I.T. support. They say your account needs a new passkey — that new, password-free login everyone's switching to. They sound calm. They sound official. And if you follow their instructions, you just handed...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/biometric-login-fake-it-calls-hand-scammers-a-work-account