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A paramedic in Iowa is kneeling next to someone whose heart just stopped. They reach for a locked cabinet full of controlled medication. And the thing that opens that cabinet in under a second isn't...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/biometric-machine-iowa-medics-get-16-510-drug-lock

More than a million children — one point two million — told researchers that someone took their photo and turned it into fake sexual imagery. In a single year. Across just eleven countries. In some of those countries,...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/deepfake-election-tools-now-hit-1-2-million-schoolkids

In Kenya, a seven-year-old can now be fingerprinted before they're old enough to spell their own last name. The government's rolling out biometric health IDs for children aged seven to seventeen....

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/what-is-biometric-id-kenya-now-fingerprints-7-year-olds

Picture a hundred kids, all thirteen, fourteen, fifteen years old, walking through an age check on a social media app. Under Meta's new settlement, up to three of them can be waved through as adults — and that's the...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/meta-age-verification-3-in-100-teens-slip-through-as-adults

You can change your password. You can change your phone number. You can't change your face. And right now, in supermarkets across Australia, cameras are scanning shoppers' faces at the door — with no new law, no new...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/is-facial-recognition-safe-the-face-data-job-nobody-approved

A scammer only needs three seconds of your voice. Three seconds — grabbed from an Instagram story or a voicemail — and A.I. can build a copy that fools most people. One man in Maharashtra lost...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/voice-biometrics-cloned-voice-cost-one-man-rs-11-8-lakh

A journalist in Romania — someone trained to spot fraud for a living — almost wired money to a stranger. Why? Because the voice on the phone sounded exactly like her sister. It wasn't her sister. It was three seconds of audio, run through a...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/voice-cloning-technology-3-seconds-of-audio-fakes-family

A woman in Hyderabad picked up a late-night call. The voice on the line was her nephew. He said he'd been in an accident. He said he was about to be jailed. He begged for money. She later told...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/ai-voice-cloning-scam-rs-11-8-lakh-lost-in-maharashtra

A facial recognition system can be ninety-nine percent accurate and still be illegal to use. Not because it's broken. Because of what someone decided to point it at. Under European law, the exact same...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/eu-ai-act-summary-4-risk-tiers-decide-hiring-and-loans

Somewhere right now, someone is copying encrypted files they can't open. They're not frustrated. They're patient. Because according to warnings from the N.S.A. and N.I.S.T., attackers are collecting...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/digital-identity-security-stolen-faces-crack-open-by-2035