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That little blue checkmark on a dating profile? It doesn't mean the person is safe. It means they spent thirty seconds proving they're the person in the photos. Those are two completely different...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/online-dating-identity-verification-one-30-second-face-check

When you pay with your face, it feels like one smooth moment. You look at a camera, and money moves. But behind that single glance, three completely separate systems are each asking a different question — and if any one of them says no,...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/biometric-payment-3-hidden-checks-before-money-moves

A woman in Rajanpur was told she'd get help buying food. All she had to do was press her thumb on a scanner. Officials say that thumbprint was later used to open a phone line — and that phone line was linked to terrorist activity.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/biometric-identity-theft-pakistan-blocks-18-2m-sim-cards

Your computer is about to start telling apps how old you are. Not your birthday. Just a band — like "thirteen to fifteen" or "eighteen and up." And you won't be the one deciding when it speaks. If you've ever set up a...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/age-verification-device-windows-is-now-the-machine

A VPN — that little app millions of people use to hide their location online — can no longer do the one thing it was famous for. Not in Utah. Starting...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/utah-age-verification-law-vpns-out-id-data-in

Between January and August of this year, one bank got hit with eight thousand and sixty-five deepfake attacks. Not eight thousand suspicious logins. Eight thousand attempts to fool the camera with an A.I.-generated face.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/ai-identity-verification-8-065-deepfakes-hit-one-bank

Right now, in Scotland, there's a camera scanning shoppers as they walk into a store — and there's no rule on the books that clearly says it can't. The only official strategy governing public surveillance cameras there...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/biometric-data-definition-3-questions-a-face-scan-must-answer

Three seconds. That's all it takes. Three seconds of your voice — from a voicemail greeting, a TikTok clip, even a few words you say when you pick up a wrong number — and a stranger can clone how you sound. The F.B.I....

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/what-is-voice-cloning-3-seconds-of-audio-fakes-a-family-call

Criminals took photos straight off a school's public website. Ordinary class pictures. Faces from a school events page. Then they used A.I. to twist those photos into more than a hundred fake sexual...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/ai-deepfake-images-gangs-blackmail-49-of-schools

A scammer no longer needs a recording of your child's voice. They need about one second of it. Security researchers now talk about the "one-point-two-second sample" — that's all the audio it takes to clone a voice well...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/ai-voice-cloning-scam-1-2-seconds-fakes-a-childs-voice