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Criminals took ordinary school photos — the kind on any school website — and fed them into an A.I. tool. What came out was fake child abuse imagery. In one U.K. secondary school, a hundred and fifty of those fabricated images broke child...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/facial-comparison-150-fake-photos-49-of-schools-hit

The federal government just decided to spend four hundred and forty million dollars — and not a penny of it goes toward smarter facial recognition software. Every dollar goes toward the cameras. The...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/biometric-device-quality-dhs-bets-440m-on-cameras

Two Harvard students put on a pair of ordinary-looking glasses. They walked down the street. And within seconds, they could pull up the name, the address, and personal details of complete strangers they'd never met....

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/meta-smart-glasses-facial-recognition-code-pulled-in-48-hours

A government just looked at the global rush to lock kids out of social media — and said, prove it works first. South Africa's government stated there's no solid evidence that banning under-sixteens from social media...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/age-verification-software-south-africa-rejects-id-checks

A public official in Seoul took a photo of a coworker straight off the office website. The kind of headshot on every organizational chart. Then he fed that face into an A.I. tool, built fake...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/ai-deepfake-images-seoul-official-fined-over-staff-photo

When you tap your phone to prove who you are at an airport, something invisible happens in the background — and it's not a phone call to headquarters. A piece of math checks your credential in a fraction of a second....

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/national-digital-identity-zambias-invisible-proof-layer

Imagine walking into a bank to open an account. Instead of handing over a card that shows your home address, your license number, and your signature, your phone answers just one question — "Is this person old enough?" —...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/mobile-identity-verification-banks-now-take-phone-ids

A man in Singapore sat down for a video call with his Prime Minister. The Prime Minister was on screen. Other government officials were on the call too. By the end, he was asked to transfer nearly...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/deepfake-scam-losses-hit-s-242-9m-as-singapore-acts

When you set up a new account for your kid on X, the app never shows you the parental controls. They exist. But they're buried so deep, most parents never find them. And Ireland's media regulator...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/biometric-research-ireland-probes-x-facial-age-data

In Australia, a law banned kids aged twelve to fifteen from social media. But two out of every three of those kids kept scrolling anyway. They used family accounts and V.P.N.s to walk right around...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/social-media-identity-verification-macron-eyes-id-scanning