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Someone calls a company's help desk. The voice on the line sounds exactly like an employee who's locked out. It isn't that employee. It's a computer-made copy of their voice, and the help desk agent is about to hand...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/deepfake-fake-voices-hijack-accounts-via-the-help-desk-podcast

Three men spent eighteen months copying the voices of real company executives. Federal prosecutors say they used those fake voices to talk finance teams into wiring a hundred and twenty-nine million dollars.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/ai-voice-cloning-3-men-charged-in-129-million-boss-scam-podcast

Police in Hong Kong found an elderly man with dementia within an hour and a half of his family reporting him missing. A camera network helped find him. And that same technology comes with a catch that...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/china-facial-recognition-hong-kong-cameras-now-match-faces-podcast

Western Australia pointed cameras at one point three eight million faces over five months. Police say it produced one hundred twenty-two arrests. It also produced nine alerts that pointed at the...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/facial-recognition-false-arrest-9-wrong-alerts-1-38m-faces-podcast

A fifteen-minute appointment can put your fingerprints on file for up to seventy-five years. That's the plan, according to reporting from the Wall Street Journal on how the Department of Homeland Security wants to keep...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/biometrics-appointment-15-minutes-up-to-75-years-on-file-podcast

A major adult website just came back to Australia. But only for people who own an Apple device. Everyone else is still locked out. Maybe you've never visited that site. Maybe you...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/age-verification-pornhub-returns-but-only-for-apple-users-podcast

Seven people have been confirmed wrongly accused because a facial recognition system pointed at the wrong face. The Innocence Project says six of those seven were Black. Now India's Supreme Court is...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/facial-recognition-indias-top-court-weighs-wrong-matches-podcast

Earlier this year, a Discord data breach exposed photos of government I.D.s belonging to about seventy thousand people. The leak didn't come from Discord itself. It came from an outside company hired to check ages.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/age-verification-uk-kids-faces-and-ids-no-delete-date-podcast

Valve had permission to scan your face to check your age. It said no, and chose your credit card instead. That choice protects your privacy, but it also locks out roughly nineteen million adults in...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/steam-uk-age-verification-credit-card-only-no-selfie-scan-podcast

Up to eleven percent of American adults don't have a current, government-issued photo I.D. Now picture a law that says you must show one just to download an app. Millions of people could be locked out...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/app-store-age-verification-3-questions-on-storage-duration-podcast