Thirty states have now passed laws targeting deepfakes. The E.U. starts enforcing its own rules in August. And the detection technology those laws assume exists? It isn't ready y

Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/deepfake-laws-just-hit-30-states-your-verification-process-wont-survive-court

A judge in California threw out an entire civil case after one side deliberately introduced a deepfake as evidence. That wasn't a hypothetical. It already happened. If you've ev

Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/deepfake-evidence-just-got-a-case-tossed-and-youtube-quietly-became-your-first-l

Most people assume the smartest algorithm wins the facial recognition game. But a ninety-nine percent accurate system can't tell you who someone is if the photo you fed it was blurry, badly lit, or shot from the wrong an

Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-facial-recognition-isnt-broken-your-source-photos-are

A man in Singapore sat down for a Zoom call with someone who looked and sounded exactly like Prime Minister Lawrence Wong. By the time the call ended, he'd transferred the equivalent of fifteen million Malaysian ringgit

Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/deepfake-pm-cost-him-rm15m-on-zoom-your-workflow-is-next

A U.S.-based biometrics company just announced it's targeting one billion identity verifications in a single country — Nigeria — within the next couple of years. Not a million. Not a hundred million.

Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/billion-scan-bombshell-the-quiet-biometrics-shift-nigeria-singapore-and-dhs-just

A scammer needs three seconds of someone's voice to clone it with eighty-five percent accuracy. Three seconds. That's less audio than a voicemail greeting. If that makes you un

Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/deepfake-fraud-just-tripled-to-1-1b-and-youre-looking-for-the-wrong-thing

A judge in California caught a deepfake video that a plaintiff submitted as witness testimony in court. The judge spotted it — not because of any screening protocol, not because of any detection software, but because the

Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/deepfake-nearly-indicted-an-innocent-person-courts-have-zero-protocols-to-stop-t

Nine journalists and voice actors just sued nine of the biggest tech companies on the planet. Their claim is simple. These companies took their voices — without asking — fed them into A.I. models, an

Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/big-tech-stole-their-voices-to-train-ai-now-illinois-law-could-cost-billions

A single round of J.P.E.G. compression can erase nearly a third of the evidence that proves a face is fake. Not the face itself. Not the expression or the skin tone. The invisible mathematical finger

Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/the-3-forensic-checks-that-expose-a-deepfake-your-eyes-will-never-catch

A dating app asks you to hold up your driver's license, then take a video selfie. An algorithm compares your face to the photo on that I.D. in seconds. That same technology — the exact same kind of o

Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-face-is-the-new-password-and-nobody-asked-if-it-should-be