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To watch a movie clip online, or scroll a social feed, you might soon have to prove you're an adult — by handing over a government I.D. And if you live in one of about twenty-five U.S. states, that's already becoming...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/texas-age-verification-law-25-states-now-demand-id-checks

A student went on a school trip, took ordinary photos of a teacher, and turned them into fake explicit images using an app on his phone. No hacking. No stolen passwords. Just class-trip snapshots and a free tool that...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/deepfake-phishing-a-student-faked-a-teacher-in-jeju

That box where you type in your birthday to get into an app? A court just decided it's basically worthless. Meta agreed to a settlement that says a self-reported birthday no longer counts as proof of age. And for the...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/facial-age-estimation-meta-sets-a-3-error-limit

You just held your phone up to your face. It scanned you, blinked a green checkmark, and confirmed — yes, that's really you, live, in person, not a photo or a deepfake. Ninety seconds later, your loan application got denied. So how can a...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/online-identity-verification-why-a-passed-face-scan-fails

Federal agencies can search more than six hundred forty million driver's license photos held by state motor vehicle departments — and in many cases, they don't need a warrant to do it. If you have a driver's license,...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/biometric-access-250-florida-agencies-one-contractor

A child can type a fake birthday and walk straight past Australia's strictest online safety law. That's the same law that threatens websites with fines of nearly fifty million dollars. The rule...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/roblox-age-verification-bypass-a-fake-birthdate-still-works

Police say a Bentonville photographer used an everyday A.I. chatbot to turn ordinary portraits of his young clients into child sexual abuse images. The photos he started with were legal. The tool he...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/ai-deepfake-images-200-charges-for-kids-photographer

More than a million Australian kids between the ages of eight and twelve got onto social media they were never supposed to see. How? The platforms just asked them to check a box that said "I'm old...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/texas-age-verification-law-the-sites-that-never-ask

Belgium built a national identity card with a cryptographic chip. Unbreakable math. And researchers found a way around it anyway — not by cracking the chip, but by exploiting the software that read the card. The...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/what-is-digital-identity-verification-3-checks-not-one

The face scan at the airport gate takes about two seconds. But according to the Department of Homeland Security's own final rule, if you're not a U.S. citizen, the photo taken in that moment can sit in a federal...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/biometric-data-meaning-one-face-scan-75-year-record