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Baltimore just became the first U.S. city to sue over AI deepfake porn, and the real story isn't the lawsuit. It's that investigators still have no standardized
Scammers aren't stealing your identity anymore, they're building new ones from scratch. Here's why synthetic identity fraud is the threat investigators aren't m
The 2026 midterms didn't just surface deepfake videos, they revealed that almost nobody on the ground has the tools or process to prove what's real. That's the
Deepfake fraud just jumped 33% in a single reporting period. If your investigative workflow still relies on eyeballing faces and documents, you're not just behi
Synthetic identity fraud is projected to hit $58.3B by 2030, and the deepfakes driving that number are already passing the identity checks that banks and invest
Synthetic identity fraud is on track to hit $58.3 billion by 2030, and deepfakes are the reason your current identity verification workflow is already obsolete.
The TSA and Coast Guard are locking in sole-source biometric deals at the exact moment the FTC is punishing companies for misleading data practices. For investi
A Minnesota appeals court just denied rehearing in a major deepfake case, and it's the latest signal that your image evidence needs a documented forensic trail,
The EU voted 569-45 to ban AI nudifier apps while the U.S. Coast Guard locked in new biometric contracts, and the collision between those two moves is about to
Lawmakers worldwide are rushing deepfake crackdowns into law, but almost nobody is drawing the line between criminal impersonation and the forensic tools invest
Regulators and airports are turning facial age estimation into a gatekeeper for the entire internet. That creates a critical distinction investigators can't aff
Age checks were supposed to keep kids safer online. Now they're creating timestamped identity trails that investigators will need to understand, and explain in
