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Britain's Home Office has written down, in its own risk document, that its new facial recognition cameras might pick the wrong person. Not could in theory. Might, and it plans for it. And the cameras...

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An employee at the engineering firm Arup joined a video call with the company's senior executives. Every face on that call was fake. The employee then sent twenty-five million dollars to the fraudsters.

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If you have an identical twin, your iPhone's Face ID may already be unlocked for both of you. Apple's own statement admits twins who look alike could probably open each other's phones. And...

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Shoppers in the U.K. have been walking into stores, getting stopped at the door, and told they're thieves. Some of them were shaking from head to toe afterward. They hadn't stolen anything. A camera...

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A Pennsylvania state trooper used his work computer, and state photo databases, to make deepfake pornography of real people. Investigators say they found more than ten thousand pornographic images on that machine.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/make-deepfake-videos-pa-trooper-gets-prison-for-face-swap-podcast

Starting this November, a fourteen-year-old in Turkey who wants a social media account will have to ask the government for permission first. But the government won't tell the app who that kid is. It...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/age-verification-turkey-keeps-ids-away-from-apps-on-nov-1-podcast

A grandmother in Tennessee spent more than five months in jail for crimes in North Dakota. She says she'd never even been to that state. Her name is Angela Lipps, and the thing that put her there was a computer's guess...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/digital-identity-protection-software-jails-grandma-5-months-podcast

Someone downloads a free app to put funny hats on their dog. Months later, that same app, on someone else's phone, was a tool for making sexual deepfakes. Same app. Same store listing. Nothing in...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/deepfake-ai-apps-pet-editors-hid-sexual-face-swap-tools-podcast

A woman in Tennessee spent six months in jail for a crime in North Dakota. She'd never been to North Dakota. Police say a facial recognition system tied her to a bank fraud case, and the match was...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/facial-recognition-in-stores-shoppers-wrongly-tied-to-crime-podcast

Most travelers who say yes to a face scan at the airport don't realize they could have said no. At T.S.A. checkpoints, you can decline the camera and still get through security. You won't face extra...

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