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Researchers at deepidv looked at four million fake identities. Nearly a quarter of them used a real government I.D. number — a legitimate number, pulled from a real record — paired with completely invented personal details.

A judge just ordered a company to hand over its deletion logs. Not its marketing. Not its emails. The quiet, boring records that show exactly when it erased people's faces from its systems. And that o

Upload a selfie to verify your identity — just once. That single photo could quietly become fuel for an A.I. that keeps improving long after you've forgotten you ever sent it. And under Europe's new A.I. law, the company holding that photo ca

Between January and August of 2025, researchers watched one single bank get hit with over eight thousand attempts to fool its selfie check. Not eight thousand attempts across the whole industry. Eight

A payment app used by seventy-four million people just told its users something simple. Verify your identity — or your reward points drop to zero. No warning shots. One day the points were there. The next day, if you hadn't handed over your I

That five-star hotel photo you booked from? There's a decent chance it was never real. Roughly one in five hotel images online are generated by A.I. or heavily edited. The pool that looks bigger than it is. The ocean view that's actually a pa

In the Philippines, opening a bank account is about to change in a way most people won't get a vote on. Very soon, you won't hand over a stack of documents to prove who you are. You'll show your face — and a government database will decide if

The face scanner that just judged whether you are who you say you are? It may have learned what a human face looks like from faces that were never real. No person ever sat for those photos. No camera ever clicked. A compu

There's a kind of fraud where the criminal doesn't steal your identity. They build a brand-new person who never existed — using your real Social Security number. And a well-made fake like that can pass every document check a bank throws at it

Someone could open a gambling account in your name — using just your initials and a work address — deposit thousands of pounds, and you wouldn't know until the money tried to leave. In Britain, more than a quarter of the