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She spent her whole career reading people. Sitting across from strangers, spotting the lie behind the smile. Then a face that never existed talked her out of one hundred eighty thousand dollars. She was a psychologist.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/deepfake-romance-scam-warning-signs

Two billionaires appeared in ads promising a sure thing. Neither one of them ever said a word. Their faces were fake — and by the time regulators caught up, about one billion rand had vanished from ordinary people's accounts.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/deepfake-celebrity-investment-scam-r1-billion

The last time you filled out a form for a new job, there was probably a line asking whether anyone in your family has had cancer, or diabetes, or heart disease. In Illinois, answering that question is legally the same...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/genetic-information-privacy-family-medical-history-workplace

Forty-two state attorneys general have formed a coalition to go after companies that use artificial intelligence to make decisions about people. Not the companies building the A.I. The companies using it.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/ai-regulation-applies-to-your-business-not-just-big-tech

Only one in a thousand people can look at a fake video and know it's fake. That's not a typo. When researchers showed people A.I.-generated footage next to real footage, about one-tenth of one...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/deepfake-crypto-scams-what-comes-next

In October twenty twenty-five, a company that verifies people's ages lost seventy thousand ID photos in a single breach. That same season, a dating app leaked seventy-two thousand selfies. These...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/age-verification-meta-trial-family-guide

For years, kids got past age checks the same way — they just typed in a fake birthday. That trick is dying. The next time your child signs up for an app, it might ask for their face instead.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/tiktok-settlement-age-verification-facial-checks

Three seconds. That's how much of your voice a scammer needs to build a working copy of you. And according to research compiled by security firm Vectra A.I., that three second sample already...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/why-a-familiar-voice-is-no-longer-proof-of-identity

Five seconds. That's all the audio a text-to-speech program needs to build a usable copy of your voice. Five seconds of a voicemail, a video you posted, a phone call you didn't think twice about.

A million children in Brazil had their faces scanned every single day — just to take attendance. The system stored those faces for as long as a kid stayed enrolled. That's up to fourteen years — for a