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A county-level candidate in Missouri just ran a fully AI-generated political ad. With 30 states still unprotected, your local ballot may be next, and you'd neve
Cheshire Police just ran live face-scanning cameras on ordinary public streets, not a test, a real deployment. Here's what that means for everyone walking aroun
A grocery store in Spokane is already scanning customers' faces, and Washington state law doesn't require it to tell you much about it. The retail face-scan era
Scammers have moved past fake celebrity videos. Now they're using fake IDs, fake selfies, and fake "prove you're real" videos to beat the exact step you trust m
A federal court just told an eyewear company it can't hide behind "healthcare" to avoid biometric privacy rules. Here's why that affects anyone who's ever tried
Starting August 2, AI chatbots and deepfakes in Europe need labels. But the tougher protections, the ones that actually shield you from AI decisions in hiring a
San Francisco is forcing Apple and Google to pull apps that turn ordinary photos into fake sexual images. The scariest part? Those apps were sitting in the same
A federal appeals court just ruled that years of daily biometric scans count as one legal claim, not thousands. The math changed. Your rights didn't, but you ne
A store near you might already be scanning your face at the door. Monroe County wants retailers to say so out loud. Here's why that small ask is a much bigger d
Grocery Outlet is quietly scanning faces at Bay Area store entrances using AI software called SAFR. Shoppers in California have no legal right to be told it's h
Meta's smart-glasses app had finished facial-recognition code sitting inside it on 50 million phones, before anyone turned it on. The question nobody's asking l
Anthropic quietly started asking users for government-issued ID to use Claude. OpenAI got federal approval for GPT-5.6. The next AI fight isn't about what AI ca
