A hiring algorithm can filter out more than a quarter of Black applicants — and starting next August, an A.I. system doing exactly that can enter the European market with no record of where its training data came from, and no proof it was eve

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When you take a selfie to prove who you are — to open a bank account, or unlock a service — you probably think the app is just checking whether your face matches your ID. But that selfie is only one of at least four separ

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The best deepfake detector doesn't look at the face at all. It watches how the face moves. And it turns out the most convincing fake video in the world gives itself away — not in the skin, not in the eyes, but in the motion between one frame

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More than a third of American teenagers say someone made a fake nude of them — without their consent. That's not a headline about celebrities. That's kids in ordinary schools, and the tools used to do it were sitting on the App Store.

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Picture this. You clock in at work every morning by scanning your fingerprint. You do it twice a day for five years. That's about twenty-six hundred scans of your body. And a federal court just decided that all of those scans count as one sin

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You walked into a Wegmans this year, picked up your groceries, and a camera turned your face into a string of numbers. You were never told. Wegmans admitted it — a handful of its stores were using facial recognition, quie

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Last month in Perth, Australia, a police van drove down public streets and scanned the faces of everyone who walked past. In one week, it captured more than a hundred and thirty thousand faces. And th

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There's a piece of malware called GoldPickaxe that doesn't want your password. It wants a video of your face. And once it has that, there's nothing you can do to take it back — because unlike a passwo

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The next time you walk into a Grocery Outlet in the Bay Area, a camera may scan your face before you even touch a shopping basket. You won't get a warning. You won't sign anything. And in California, the store doesn't hav

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Fifty million phones were carrying finished facial-recognition code — and almost nobody who installed the app knew it was there. It could spot a face. It could turn that face into a string of numbers. It could match that

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