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A grandma in Australia lost R2 million to an AI "boyfriend." Scammers cloned Singapore's own Prime Minister on a Zoom call. Here's what the country's new safegu
A breach tied to 170 million driver's licenses, ID cards, and travel documents shows why "just upload your ID" is a bigger ask than it sounds, and why you can't
A Shanghai court just made AI voice cloning legally expensive. Here's what that $112,000 ruling means for the rest of us when a "familiar" voice calls asking fo
TSA is rolling out facial recognition at more airports while, in the same week, 170 million ID documents allegedly leaked and a voice-cloning scam cost someone
Singapore is testing a simple fix for a scary problem: a prefix on government calls so you can tell a real official from an AI-cloned voice trying to rob you.
Steam now wants Australian gamers to hand over a credit card before they can play mature-rated games they already own. We break down why, and whether there was
The UK wants your phone, not just individual websites, to prove how old you are. That sounds efficient. It also means one privacy mistake follows you everywhere
Criminal gangs are blackmailing UK schools with AI-made child sexual-abuse images built from ordinary class photos. Here's what parents and schools actually nee
South Africa just said no to forcing every family to hand over ID scans or selfies to keep kids off social media. Here's what that fight is really about.
A South Korean official was fined for faking his colleague's face into a romantic photo using AI. It's a warning shot for every office with a group chat and a c
Singapore lost S$242.9 million to impersonation scams and is fighting back with something almost embarrassingly simple: one number that starts every real govern
Ireland just opened a formal investigation into whether X's parental controls and age checks actually work, not just whether they exist. Here's why that "1" mat
