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Someone copied a hundred and seventy million identity documents — driver's licenses, passports, medical cards — and put them up for sale. And here's the part that stops you cold. Nobody noticed for more than a year.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/id-verification-170-million-stolen-ids-now-for-sale

Every time you hand a bartender your driver's license just to prove you're old enough to drink, you're giving away way more than your age. Your name. Your home address. Your license number. Your exact birthday.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/digital-identity-bangladesh-bets-748-million-on-trust

Every time you prove you're old enough to buy something online, you hand over your entire birth date — sometimes a photo of your license. But there's a way to prove you're over eighteen without revealing the day you were born. Not the year....

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/digital-identity-verification-proving-18-without-a-birthday

A company took about one minute of recorded voice audio. They fed it into an A.I. model. And a court in Shanghai just ordered them to pay more than a hundred thousand dollars for it.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/what-is-voice-cloning-one-minute-of-audio-112-000-fine

The next time you step up to airport security, a camera may be studying your face before an officer ever looks at your I.D. That's happening right now at eighty-four U.S. airports. And the agency running those cameras never published a...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/tsa-facial-recognition-airports-84-now-scan-faces-at-security

A scammer needs just a few seconds of your voice to build a convincing copy of it. Not a minute. Not an hour. A few seconds — grabbed from a voicemail, a video, a work call — and an artificial intelligence model can make it say anything.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/deepfake-scams-singapore-tags-real-government-calls

Imagine you give your fingerprint to your employer. You assume the privacy law protects it. But an Illinois court just ruled that the exact same fingerprint can be protected in one situation — and completely unprotected in another.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/illinois-bipa-court-exempts-home-care-fingerprint-scans

When you show your I.D. at a new job, you probably think you just proved you're allowed to work there. You didn't. That one card answers a question your employer never actually finished asking. If you've ever started a...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/online-identity-verification-one-id-three-hiring-checks

Picture this. You've got a Steam account you've had for twenty years. You've bought games. You've paid real money. And one morning, in Australia, you go to open a mature-rated game you already own — and you can't. Not...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/credit-card-age-verification-steam-skips-age-estimation

Nearly four in five kids between ten and fifteen already have a social media account. That's despite every one of those platforms setting a minimum age. Why? Because the systems just ask kids how old they are — and kids type whatever gets...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/uk-age-verification-1-400-vpn-privacy-signup-surge