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AI Voice Cloning: Fake Call Takes Rs 1.2 Lakh From Florist
Nov 9, 2026•Episode 925•News

AI Voice Cloning: Fake Call Takes Rs 1.2 Lakh From Florist

A florist in Kolkata picked up the phone and heard a voice she'd known for years. It was a friend. It sounded exactly like her. It wasn't. By the end of the nig

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TikTok's Response: Nearly 50 Nude Deepfake Apps, 'Not Ads'
Nov 9, 2026•Episode 924•News

TikTok's Response: Nearly 50 Nude Deepfake Apps, 'Not Ads'

Nearly fifty apps that can turn an ordinary photo into a fake nude were reportedly being promoted on TikTok. And when researchers raised the alarm, TikTok's ans

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Facial Recognition in Stores: False Match Ejects UK Shopper
Nov 9, 2026•Episode 923•News

Facial Recognition in Stores: False Match Ejects UK Shopper

A couple walked into a Budgens grocery store in the U.K., and a staff member told the wife she was accused of stealing "loads of meat." Both of them say they ha

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Roblox Age Verification Face Scan: Hijackers Keep Kid Status
Nov 9, 2026•Episode 922•News

Roblox Age Verification Face Scan: Hijackers Keep Kid Status

Roblox's face scan can decide your kid is a kid. But it never actually remembers whose face it was. So if someone takes over that account, the child's verified

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Hong Kong police: Face scans start, no word on wrong matches
Nov 8, 2026•Episode 921•News

Hong Kong police: Face scans start, no word on wrong matches

Hong Kong police have solved more than two thousand cases with their camera network. Now they're adding face scanning to it. And so far, nobody has said what ha

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Deepfake: 1 in 15 Australians Hit, and Familiar Voices Lie
Nov 8, 2026•Episode 920•News

Deepfake: 1 in 15 Australians Hit, and Familiar Voices Lie

One in fifteen Australian adults says someone has made an A.I. fake image of them since they turned eighteen. That's a new finding from researchers at R.M.I.T.

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Facial Recognition: WA Police Scan 1.4M Faces, Arrest 122
Nov 8, 2026•Episode 919•News

Facial Recognition: WA Police Scan 1.4M Faces, Arrest 122

Western Australian police pointed cameras at crowds and scanned almost one point four million faces. That trial ended with one hundred twenty-two arrests. Polic

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What Is a Biometric Passport: A Chip Skimmed From 14 Inches
Nov 8, 2026•Episode 918•News

What Is a Biometric Passport: A Chip Skimmed From 14 Inches

Your passport has a tiny chip inside it that won't say a word until it's powered up by a reader. But researchers have shown that someone with a homemade reader

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Utah Age Verification: Adult Sites Can Keep ID and Selfies
Nov 7, 2026•Episode 917•News

Utah Age Verification: Adult Sites Can Keep ID and Selfies

Starting 11/2/2026, an adult in Utah who wants to visit certain websites has to hand over a selfie or a photo of a government ID. The state won't collect that

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Facial Recognition: 1.7 Million London Faces, 44 Arrests
Nov 7, 2026•Episode 916•News

Facial Recognition: 1.7 Million London Faces, 44 Arrests

Police in London scanned the faces of one point seven million people in the first four months of this year. Those scans led to forty-four arrests. Do the math,

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Child Identity Theft: 3 in 4 Young Victims Know the Thief
Nov 7, 2026•Episode 915•News

Child Identity Theft: 3 in 4 Young Victims Know the Thief

Picture this. A teenager applies for her first job, and the background check comes back with a criminal record. It's an arrest she never had, under her own name

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Deepfake: Fake Voices Hijack Accounts via the Help Desk
Nov 7, 2026•Episode 914•News

Deepfake: Fake Voices Hijack Accounts via the Help Desk

Someone calls a company's help desk. The voice on the line sounds exactly like an employee who's locked out. It isn't that employee. It's a computer-made copy o

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AI Voice Cloning: 3 Men Charged in $129 Million Boss Scam
Nov 6, 2026•Episode 913•News

AI Voice Cloning: 3 Men Charged in $129 Million Boss Scam

Three men spent eighteen months copying the voices of real company executives. Federal prosecutors say they used those fake voices to talk finance teams into wi

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China Facial Recognition: Hong Kong Cameras Now Match Faces
Nov 6, 2026•Episode 912•News

China Facial Recognition: Hong Kong Cameras Now Match Faces

Police in Hong Kong found an elderly man with dementia within an hour and a half of his family reporting him missing. A camera network helped find him. And that

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Facial Recognition False Arrest: 9 Wrong Alerts, 1.38M Faces
Nov 6, 2026•Episode 911•News

Facial Recognition False Arrest: 9 Wrong Alerts, 1.38M Faces

Western Australia pointed cameras at one point three eight million faces over five months. Police say it produced one hundred twenty-two arrests. It also produc

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Biometrics Appointment: 15 Minutes, Up to 75 Years on File
Nov 6, 2026•Episode 910•News

Biometrics Appointment: 15 Minutes, Up to 75 Years on File

A fifteen-minute appointment can put your fingerprints on file for up to seventy-five years. That's the plan, according to reporting from the Wall Street Journa

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Age verification: Pornhub returns, but only for Apple users
Nov 5, 2026•Episode 909•News

Age verification: Pornhub returns, but only for Apple users

A major adult website just came back to Australia. But only for people who own an Apple device. Everyone else is still locked out. Maybe you've never visited

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Facial Recognition: India's Top Court Weighs Wrong Matches
Nov 5, 2026•Episode 908•News

Facial Recognition: India's Top Court Weighs Wrong Matches

Seven people have been confirmed wrongly accused because a facial recognition system pointed at the wrong face. The Innocence Project says six of those seven we

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Age Verification: UK Kids' Faces and IDs, No Delete Date
Nov 5, 2026•Episode 907•News

Age Verification: UK Kids' Faces and IDs, No Delete Date

Earlier this year, a Discord data breach exposed photos of government I.D.s belonging to about seventy thousand people. The leak didn't come from Discord itself

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Steam UK Age Verification: Credit Card Only, No Selfie Scan
Nov 5, 2026•Episode 906•News

Steam UK Age Verification: Credit Card Only, No Selfie Scan

Valve had permission to scan your face to check your age. It said no, and chose your credit card instead. That choice protects your privacy, but it also locks o

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App Store Age Verification: 3 Questions on Storage Duration
Nov 4, 2026•Episode 905•News

App Store Age Verification: 3 Questions on Storage Duration

Up to eleven percent of American adults don't have a current, government-issued photo I.D. Now picture a law that says you must show one just to download an app

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Facial recognition: Home Office Admits Risk of Wrong Matches
Nov 4, 2026•Episode 904•News

Facial recognition: Home Office Admits Risk of Wrong Matches

Britain's Home Office has written down, in its own risk document, that its new facial recognition cameras might pick the wrong person. Not could in theory. Migh

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Deepfake Scams: 1 in 5 in Hong Kong Trust Banks to Stop Them
Nov 4, 2026•Episode 903•News

Deepfake Scams: 1 in 5 in Hong Kong Trust Banks to Stop Them

An employee at the engineering firm Arup joined a video call with the company's senior executives. Every face on that call was fake. The employee then sent twen

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Face Recognition iPhone: Beats Masks, Still Opens for Twins
Nov 4, 2026•Episode 902•News

Face Recognition iPhone: Beats Masks, Still Opens for Twins

If you have an identical twin, your iPhone's Face ID may already be unlocked for both of you. Apple's own statement admits twins who look alike could probably o

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UK Shop Face Recognition: Innocent Shoppers Named as Thieves
Nov 3, 2026•Episode 901•News

UK Shop Face Recognition: Innocent Shoppers Named as Thieves

Shoppers in the U.K. have been walking into stores, getting stopped at the door, and told they're thieves. Some of them were shaking from head to toe afterward.

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