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Nearly fifty apps that can turn an ordinary photo into a fake nude were reportedly being promoted on TikTok. And when researchers raised the alarm, TikTok's answer was simple. Those weren't ads.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/tiktoks-response-nearly-50-nude-deepfake-apps-not-ads-podcast

A couple walked into a Budgens grocery store in the U.K., and a staff member told the wife she was accused of stealing "loads of meat." Both of them say they hadn't been in that store in months. They...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/facial-recognition-in-stores-false-match-ejects-uk-shopper-podcast

Roblox's face scan can decide your kid is a kid. But it never actually remembers whose face it was. So if someone takes over that account, the child's verified age status goes right along with it.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/roblox-age-verification-face-scan-hijackers-keep-kid-status-podcast

Hong Kong police have solved more than two thousand cases with their camera network. Now they're adding face scanning to it. And so far, nobody has said what happens when the system picks the wrong...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/hong-kong-police-face-scans-start-no-word-on-wrong-matches-podcast

One in fifteen Australian adults says someone has made an A.I. fake image of them since they turned eighteen. That's a new finding from researchers at R.M.I.T. University. And nearly nine in ten of...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/deepfake-1-in-15-australians-hit-and-familiar-voices-lie-podcast

Western Australian police pointed cameras at crowds and scanned almost one point four million faces. That trial ended with one hundred twenty-two arrests. Police haven't said how many people the...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/facial-recognition-wa-police-scan-1-4m-faces-arrest-122-podcast

Your passport has a tiny chip inside it that won't say a word until it's powered up by a reader. But researchers have shown that someone with a homemade reader can sometimes wake that chip up from farther away than...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/what-is-a-biometric-passport-a-chip-skimmed-from-14-inches-podcast

Starting 11/2/2026 , an adult in Utah who wants to visit certain websites has to hand over a selfie or a photo of a government ID. The state won't collect that data.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/utah-age-verification-adult-sites-can-keep-id-and-selfies-podcast

Police in London scanned the faces of one point seven million people in the first four months of this year. Those scans led to forty-four arrests. Do the math, and it's roughly thirty-eight thousand...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/facial-recognition-1-7-million-london-faces-44-arrests-podcast

Picture this. A teenager applies for her first job, and the background check comes back with a criminal record. It's an arrest she never had, under her own name, from years before. Nobody in her family had any idea.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/child-identity-theft-3-in-4-young-victims-know-the-thief-podcast