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At the twenty twenty-six World Cup, a facial recognition system tuned for tight security would reject nearly one in every two real ticket holders. Not imposters — actual fans, holding legitimate tickets, standing in front of the camera....

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/biometric-entry-one-setting-flags-42-of-real-fans

Your face can match perfectly — and you still might not belong in that building. That's not a glitch. That's actually how these systems are supposed to work. But most people, and honestly a lot of...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/biometric-building-access-control-3-checks-not-1

A mother in Arizona picked up her phone in January of twenty twenty-three. Her daughter was crying on the other end, begging for help, saying she'd been taken. Police say the voice was perfect — the...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/id-verification-3-seconds-of-audio-clones-a-childs-voice

A company just walked away from an entire country rather than change one line of its security design. Not because of a data breach. Not because of a lawsuit. Because a regulator asked them to let people skip a face...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/biometric-privacy-yoti-quits-spain-over-950-000-fine

A lawyer buys a ticket to a concert. She walks through the doors, and before she's even handed her phone to the scanner, a camera has already picked her face out of the crowd and flagged her for removal. Not because she...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/facial-recognition-privacy-concerns-msg-fined-30-000

Picture yourself walking through a shopping street on a Saturday afternoon. In under five hours, a single police camera in central London scanned fifty thousand faces. Yours could have been one of them — and you'd never have known.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/china-facial-recognition-rules-uk-scanned-4m-faces-first

There's a facial recognition system out there that's ninety-nine percent accurate. And for one group of people, it fails a third of the time. Both of those things are true at once — and that's not a...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/facial-recognition-bias-34-error-rate-for-some-faces

A ninety-nine percent confidence score sounds like near-certainty. But run that same system across a database of a million faces, and it can hand you thousands of wrong answers. The number didn't lie. It just never...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/uk-digital-identity-275-firms-face-one-new-rulebook

A group chat with twelve hundred members wasn't just trading fake images. It was trading home addresses. Student IDs. The real names of women who never posted a single photo of themselves online. If you've ever had a...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/deepfake-detection-companies-1-200-traded-faces-and-addresses

A court in Illinois just decided that a company can be on the hook for collecting your voice — even if it never once used that voice to figure out who you are. Not "did they identify you." Just "could they."

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/illinois-bipa-court-says-a-recorded-voice-is-now-a-face-scan