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Sri Lanka's police just warned the public that scammers can build a fake version of your mother's voice from a short clip on social media. A few seconds of audio. One photo. That's often all it takes...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/deepfake-scammers-clone-loved-ones-faces-and-voices

Parents of schoolgirls between fourteen and seventeen in Seremban, Malaysia, went to police after explicit A.I.-made images of their daughters began circulating. A Form Five student at the same school is the suspect.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/deepfake-schoolgirls-14-to-17-shouldnt-have-faced-suspect

Nearly five million people in Denmark can now prove they're old enough to buy a beer by opening their payment app. No passport. No driver's license. No selfie upload. The store clerk sees a photo, a...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/digital-age-check-4-8m-danes-can-skip-the-selfie-upload

Last October, a company that checks people's ages online lost seventy thousand photos of government I.D.s. Discord confirmed the breach. Those were driver's licenses and passports that people...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/age-verification-25-states-now-demand-id-and-face-scans

Police in Atlantic City say two women held a man down in a casino hotel room. Then they used his own face to unlock his phone. Within minutes, they'd spent twelve hundred and fifty dollars through his Apple Pay.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/atlantic-city-hotels-own-face-costs-star-hotel-guest-1-250

Nine years. That's how long it took AI to go from blurry, gray, pixelated faces to fake photos that most people can't tell from real ones. And the detection tools meant to catch those fakes? According to a Meta detection...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/first-ai-generated-image-9-years-from-blur-to-perfect-fake

Australia's government says it opened fifty new social media accounts after its under-sixteen ban took effect. A software test found that not one of those accounts was asked to prove an age. Not one.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/age-verification-adults-flagged-as-kids-get-pushed-for-id

Mexico just told apps like TikTok and Roblox they have thirty days to check how old their young users really are. And if they don't, nothing happens. At least not yet. There's no fine in the order....

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/age-verification-mexico-gives-apps-30-days-to-check-kids

A bank in Italy lost about a hundred and eight million dollars. The attackers didn't hack a single computer. They sent a WhatsApp message, then made one phone call. If you've ever...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/deepfake-video-detection-blind-to-a-108m-bank-voice-scam

Picture a woman sitting at a routine immigration appointment. She rests her fingers on a glass scanner, and an officer tells her it's just a background check. What she doesn't know is that those prints may now be...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/immigration-biometrics-30-000-officials-can-search-prints