CaraComp Insider

A face-matching system can make one mistake in a thousand on clean mugshots. Take that same system out into the real world, and it can get nearly one in ten wrong. That's about ninety times more...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/facial-recognition-errors-hit-millions-no-clear-appeal

Scammers don't need to hack anything to copy your child's voice. They need about three seconds of audio. A short clip from a social media reel can be enough. If you've ever...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/voice-clone-scam-3-seconds-of-audio-fakes-a-childs-call

Police in Western Australia scanned more than nine hundred thousand faces in a three-month trial. Eight people were wrongly flagged. Every one of those eight had darker skin. If...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/facial-recognition-camera-all-8-wrong-ids-hit-darker-skin

Right now, on a gay dating app called Sniffies, a person can type in a birth date that says they're over eighteen, and that's it. No check. No proof. The U.K.'s media regulator, Ofcom, is now...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/sniffies-age-verification-ofcom-probes-how-users-prove-age

Starting January sixth, many people in the U.A.E. will stop getting text message codes from their banks. Officials say that's meant to protect them. But scammers are already seeing an opening.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/biometric-login-uae-banks-drop-text-codes-scammers-pounce

A fugitive software millionaire once gave away his hiding place in Guatemala. He didn't confess. He didn't slip up in an interview. A magazine posted a photo of him, and the photo itself quietly carried the coordinates...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/photo-metadata-remover-3-mistakes-that-leak-home-addresses

Pornhub went dark in Australia for eight months. Then it came back in October, but only for people who own an Apple device and are willing to upload a passport, a driver's licence, or a credit card. Everyone else is...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/age-verification-pornhub-back-in-australia-for-apple-only

Starting in early January, every Roblox user who wants to chat will have to prove their age with a face scan or a government I.D. That includes kids. And the software that checks them will, by...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/customer-identity-verification-roblox-will-check-every-user

Banks across the U.A.E. just stopped sending the text message codes millions of people have typed in for years. Regulators gave them until March of twenty twenty-six. Most banks moved faster, and switched things off...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/bank-biometric-verification-uae-banking-kills-sms-codes

Somewhere in Cambodia and Kenya, people sold pictures of their own eyes for crypto. Then fraudsters turned around and offered those iris scans for less than thirty dollars each. A part of your body...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/iris-scan-eye-codes-sell-for-30-and-can-never-be-replaced