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YouTube may have decided how old you are without ever looking at your face. It didn't scan a photo or check an I.D. It read what you search for, what you watch, and how long you've had your account....

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/youtube-ai-age-verification-it-reads-searches-not-faces

A marriage in India was registered with just two pieces of paper. A school transfer certificate and an Aadhaar card. Nobody checked the actual birth date. And India's own national I.D. agency says...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/age-verification-for-bars-court-rules-one-id-is-not-enough

Millions of adults could open GTA 6 on launch day and find the online mode locked. Not because they did anything wrong. Just because they didn't want to show a government I.D. to a video game.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/gta-6-age-verification-rockstar-fans-may-need-id-to-play

A sixty-five-year-old retired man in India installed what looked like a pension verification app. Police say it drained about twenty-eight lakh rupees from his account. That's roughly thirty-three...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/delhi-pension-verification-scammers-eye-4-4-lakh-seniors

Your phone may have built a mathematical index of every face in your photo library. That includes people who've never touched your phone, and never agreed to any of it. A lawsuit says the number of...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/facial-recognition-iphone-32-5b-suit-over-faces-in-photos

Western Australia Police scanned the faces of more than nine hundred thousand people in three months. They report that eight of those scans pointed at the wrong person. That works out to an error rate...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/facial-recognition-bias-what-905-117-police-scans-hide

Florida's attorney general wants every person who owns a smartphone to prove their age to the phone itself. Not just kids. Adults too. And the same proposal would bar A.I. chatbots from acting like...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/age-verification-florida-chatbots-next-then-every-phone

Your iPhone has probably scanned the face of every person in your photo library, including strangers who happened to stand behind you at a birthday party. It never asked, and it never showed you a progress bar.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/facial-recognition-iphone-photos-app-faces-32-5b-lawsuit

Roblox told investors that checking kids' ages wouldn't hurt long-term growth. Then the checks went live in January, and a shareholder says the daily player numbers fell hard. Now that shareholder...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/roblox-age-verification-bypass-ceo-sued-only-51-verified

Here's a strange fact about Europe's new digital identity wallet. It's officially optional, and yet by the end of 2027, you may find it very hard to avoid. Banks, energy companies, and the biggest...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/eu-digital-identity-wallet-optional-hard-to-dodge-by-2027