CaraComp Insider

When you unlock your phone with your face, a chemical company that got its start researching solar panels might have a claim on how that actually works. Not on your face. Not on your data. On the...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/biometric-data-definition-why-basfs-apple-suit-isnt-privacy

A healthcare worker presses their hand onto a scanner at eight-oh-three in the morning. Just clocking in. The hospital assumes that scan is protected by federal health privacy law. Legally — it's not. And that single wrong assumption could...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/biometric-time-clocks-5-000-per-scan-court-rules

In South Korea, the person making deepfake pornography of your daughter's classmate might be another fifteen-year-old. Not an organized crime ring. Not a foreign hacker. A teenager with a cheap app on a phone.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/ai-deepfake-images-korea-sex-crime-cases-jump-17x

A woman watched a video of Cristiano Ronaldo. He was recommending something — an offer, a chance, a quick opportunity. She trusted it. She lost a hundred euros. The Ronaldo in that video was never really there. It was...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/celebrity-deepfake-fake-ronaldo-video-cost-a-woman-100

A verification company left the keys to its front door hanging online for more than a year. According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a firm called AU10TIX left its login credentials exposed for over twelve months.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/utah-age-verification-law-vpn-users-now-trigger-id-checks

Someone can fake your digital I.D. right now — and if the person checking it just glances at the screen, they'll never know. Forgers have built apps that copy the look of a mobile I.D. perfectly....

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/id-verification-koreas-qr-scan-shares-just-3-facts

There's a data breach going around right now with more than a hundred and seventy million ID scans in it. And here's the part that stops you cold — you can change your password after a breach, but you can't change your face.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/id-scan-data-breach-170-million-faces-cant-be-reset

Of the young people arrested in South Korea for making deepfake pornography, most weren't adults. Police detained around five hundred suspects — and more than four hundred of them were teenagers, some as young as ten....

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/tougher-punishment-answer-78-of-victims-are-teens

To prove you're an adult online, you might soon have to hand a social network a photo of your government I.D. — or let it scan your face. Not for a bank. Not for a bar. Just to scroll through the same feed you use today.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/age-verification-id-california-bill-could-force-face-scans

A Delaware resident can pull out a state-issued digital I.D. at the airport — and still get told to hand over their plastic card. Delaware's digital I.D. doesn't meet the national standard. So the T.S.A. won't accept it.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/tsa-digital-id-21-states-17-wallets-no-guarantee