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Researchers once collected about thirty thousand public photos of one person. From those photos alone, they rebuilt seven hundred and twenty-one days of where that person had been, and when. Nobody...

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Most people in Britain expect their bank to be held responsible when a fraudster slips past an identity check. That's true even when the bank hired an outside company to run the check. Yet most of...

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When Discord users were asked to prove their age, many assumed the check looked at one thing: a birth date. Researchers later found the vendor's system could run two hundred sixty-nine separate checks.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/eu-age-verification-app-7-cent-checks-privacy-not-promised-podcast

Google told an Australian Senate inquiry that a new bill could force it to lock teenagers out of Gmail. Not Instagram. Not TikTok. Email. The kind of account a fifteen-year-old uses to get homework...

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A court in Nairobi just told every online alcohol seller in the city to stop. The reason wasn't a crime or a scandal. It was that nobody could prove the person buying a bottle was old enough to drink it.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/age-verification-nairobi-court-halts-online-alcohol-sales-podcast

Every time a company leaks your data, the letter says the same thing: freeze your credit. But when you open the credit bureau's website, the biggest button says "lock." Lock costs nine dollars and...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/credit-lock-vs-freeze-only-one-is-free-and-backed-by-law-podcast

Meta is rolling out A.I. that guesses how old you are on Instagram. It's going worldwide. And the company hasn't said how accurate it is, what signals it reads, or how to fix a wrong call.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/instagram-age-verification-ai-can-miss-teens-by-2-5-years-podcast

Taiwan's election officials can pull a fake video off the internet in seventy-three minutes. But by then, the false claim has already been spreading for about a week. Thousands of people have seen...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/deepfake-election-taiwan-warns-fakes-can-lie-about-voting-podcast

A twenty-two-year-old man sat in a Minnesota high school for nineteen days, pretending to be a teenager. He did it with one forged birth certificate. And the thing that gave him away wasn't how the...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/how-to-spot-a-fake-social-security-card-data-beats-the-eye-podcast

A florist in Kolkata picked up the phone and heard a voice she'd known for years. It was a friend. It sounded exactly like her. It wasn't. By the end of the night, the florist had lost one point two...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/ai-voice-cloning-fake-call-takes-rs-1-2-lakh-from-florist-podcast