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Imagine you're rushed into an emergency room after a car accident. You need blood, fast. But the blood type in your file isn't yours — it belongs to someone who used your name months ago. Getting the wrong type could kill you.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/medical-identity-theft-210-hours-to-fix-a-wrong-chart

The next time you snap a selfie to verify your identity, something strange happens to your face. It stops being a picture. It becomes a list of exactly one hundred and twenty-eight numbers. And whether you pass or fail...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/identity-verification-process-128-numbers-stored-with-an-id

A seventy-four-year-old retiree in the Netherlands sat down at a computer and, prosecutors say, turned about sixty real people into fake sex videos. Among them — a Dutch princess, a well-known television host, and a...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/deepfake-video-detection-60-faked-one-security-sign

The phone rings. It's someone from your company's tech support. They sound calm, professional. They tell you your account needs a quick security update — a new passkey — or you could lose access by the end of the day. So you say yes. And in...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/biometrics-fake-passkey-texts-hijack-microsoft-365

Google might already have a guess about how old you are — and it didn't get that number from your birthday. It got it from what you search for. From what you watch on YouTube. And if that guess is wrong, you could have...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/google-age-verification-14-days-before-accounts-vanish

Between twenty twenty-one and this past August, Malaysian authorities logged three hundred and twenty-six cases of fake or misused identity cards. And here's what should stop you cold — many of those cards scanned just fine. The reader lit...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/biometric-verification-326-fake-ids-scanned-just-fine

Picture handing your driver's license to a bartender. Now they know your name, your home address, your exact birthday — everything printed on that card. Starting this month in the U.K., you can walk...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/uk-age-verification-pubs-now-legal-to-take-phone-id

A California judge is deciding whether the video game where your kid builds worlds with blocks can be sued for how it was designed — not for what strangers said inside it. That distinction sounds like a lawyer's word...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/age-verification-roblox-31-lawsuits-test-section-230

To open a social media account in Malaysia today, you have to hand over a government I.D. — a national identity card or a passport. If you're under sixteen, you can't get in at all. Malaysia just...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/social-media-age-verification-laws-malaysia-now-ids-children

When you upload a photo of your I.D. and then snap a quick selfie, you probably assume those two steps are doing the same job — checking that your face matches your document. They're not. They...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/remote-identity-proofing-3-checks-the-selfie-cant-do