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Sri Lanka Police say scammers are cloning familiar faces and voices to rush people into sending money. The fix is not better eyes. It is a second way to check.
Denmark's biggest payment app can now prove your age, showing only a photo, name and age. Convenient, yes. But is it one more piece of your identity getting tie
Malaysia is studying age checks for Roblox and other online games. Safety matters, but so does what your family hands over to prove a child's age.
Age checks started with adult sites. Now they are creeping toward everyday websites, and the price may be your ID. Here is what to know before you tap "verify."
Police say a man was robbed in an Atlantic City casino hotel room and his own face was used to open his phone. Here is the warning sign that matters before any
The scariest number in deepfake abuse isn't 17,000. It's 1: one person close enough to already have your photos. Sophie Parrish's case shows why, and what chang
South Korea's regulator logged 17,378 sexual deepfake reports in eight months. This is not a celebrity problem, and one ordinary photo is all it takes.
Australia is taking five big platforms to court over its under-16 ban. The real story is what a broken age check does to everyone else, and where your ID or fac
Mexico just ordered platforms to go beyond "type your birthday" and add real parental controls. Here's what that means for your family's privacy, in plain Engli
An Italian bank reportedly lost $108 million to a WhatsApp message and a cloned voice. No fake video was involved, and that's the lesson.
Your child's next social media prompt may not be "What's your birthday?" but "Prove it." Here is what the NCRC's push could mean for families, and the one quest
A €95 million deepfake loss at Fideuram is a preview of your next bank call. Expect more "one more check" moments, and be glad of them.
