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Your Face Is About to Replace Your Credit Card at the Grocery Store. Read This F
Jul 28, 2026•Episode 502•News

Your Face Is About to Replace Your Credit Card at the Grocery Store. Read This First.

A woman in Illinois walked into a Target, did her shopping, and left. She says the store scanned and stored her face, and never asked. Now she's suing. And she'

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They Paid $10 for Her Iris Scan. Now Her City Wants $47 Million Back.
Jul 28, 2026•Episode 501•News

They Paid $10 for Her Iris Scan. Now Her City Wants $47 Million Back.

They scanned the eyes of four hundred thousand people in São Paulo. Most of them lived in low-income neighborhoods. And in exchange for a permanent scan of thei

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That Voice on the Phone Sounds Exactly Like Your Boss. It Takes 5 Minutes to Fak
Jul 28, 2026•Episode 500•News

That Voice on the Phone Sounds Exactly Like Your Boss. It Takes 5 Minutes to Fake.

That voice on the phone, the one that sounds exactly like your boss? Someone can build a convincing copy of it in about five minutes. Not hours. Not with a Holl

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That 3-Second Selfie Check? It's Actually Running 3 Hidden Tests on You
Jul 27, 2026•Episode 499•News

That 3-Second Selfie Check? It's Actually Running 3 Hidden Tests on You

That quick selfie check you do to log into your bank? In the two or three seconds it takes, three separate tests are running on your face at the same time, and

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Your Car's Daily Route Is Now Identity Data — And Nobody's Deleting It
Jul 27, 2026•Episode 498•News

Your Car's Daily Route Is Now Identity Data: And Nobody's Deleting It

Right now, somewhere in Pennsylvania, a camera just photographed a license plate. It recorded the car's color, its location, the exact time. And under current s

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Your Face, 47 Times a Night: The New Law That Turns Your Phone Into a Checkpoint
Jul 27, 2026•Episode 497•News

Your Face, 47 Times a Night: The New Law That Turns Your Phone Into a Checkpoint

A new proposal in Argentina would ask you to scan your face before every single bet. Not once when you sign up. Every time you log in. Every time you place a wa

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Your Face Just Became the Master Key to Your Entire Life — and You Can't Change
Jul 27, 2026•Episode 496•News

Your Face Just Became the Master Key to Your Entire Life: and You Can't Change It

Your face is about to become the button that unlocks your phone, hidden completely under the glass, no cutout, no notch, nothing you can see. A handful of Chine

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That "Live" Video of You? A Deepfake Can Blink on Command Now.
Jul 27, 2026•Episode 495•News

That "Live" Video of You? A Deepfake Can Blink on Command Now.

That "live" video call where someone blinks, turns their head, and answers your questions in real time? A deepfake can do all of that now, on command. The old t

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That 95% Face Match? Fake Faces Decided If You Can Trust It
Jul 26, 2026•Episode 494•News

That 95% Face Match? Fake Faces Decided If You Can Trust It

That confident ninety-five percent face match? The number that decides whether a suspect gets flagged? It might have been graded by faces that don't exist. Fake

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Your Face Is Your Ticket Now — And You Can't Reset It Like a Password
Jul 26, 2026•Episode 493•News

Your Face Is Your Ticket Now: And You Can't Reset It Like a Password

When the L.A. Clippers opened their new arena, the team expected about a third of fans to walk in using their face instead of a ticket. By the end of the season

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"Your Account Closes in 2 Hours" — The 6 Words Draining Bank Accounts Tonight
Jul 26, 2026•Episode 492•News

"Your Account Closes in 2 Hours": The 6 Words Draining Bank Accounts Tonight

A message hits your phone. It says your bank account will close in two hours. All you have to do is click one link to save it. That two-hour timer? It's not rea

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Your Face Is Becoming Your ID — And You Can't Fix It When It's Wrong
Jul 26, 2026•Episode 491•News

Your Face Is Becoming Your ID: And You Can't Fix It When It's Wrong

For most of your life, a government clerk pressed your fingers onto an ink pad, one at a time, and a human being decided whether the smudge was good enough. Tha

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The Fingerprint Scanner at Work Doesn't Know You. Someone Set a Dial That Decide
Jul 26, 2026•Episode 490•News

The Fingerprint Scanner at Work Doesn't Know You. Someone Set a Dial That Decides If You Get In.

That fingerprint scanner at your office door? It doesn't actually know who you are. Nobody programmed it to recognize you. Someone just set a dial, a hidden num

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That Green "Verified" Checkmark Lies to You 76% of the Time
Jul 25, 2026•Episode 489•News

That Green "Verified" Checkmark Lies to You 76% of the Time

That little green checkmark that says "Verified"? Depending on which system put it there, it could be wrong more than seventy-six percent of the time. According

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TikTok Is Now Selling Booze in Your Kid's Feed — And Even the Regulator Isn't Su
Jul 25, 2026•Episode 488•News

TikTok Is Now Selling Booze in Your Kid's Feed: And Even the Regulator Isn't Sure the Age Check Works

The regulator whose job is to police TikTok just opened an investigation into whether TikTok can actually tell how old you are. And in the middle of that invest

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Facebook Wants Your Face to Sell Your Couch
Jul 25, 2026•Episode 487•News

Facebook Wants Your Face to Sell Your Couch

To sell your old couch on Facebook Marketplace, you might soon have to take a selfie. Not a photo of the couch, a photo of your face. And Facebook wants to scan

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That "Verify Your ID" Email From a Recruiter? Read This Before You Upload Anythi
Jul 25, 2026•Episode 486•News

That "Verify Your ID" Email From a Recruiter? Read This Before You Upload Anything

A group of security officials made the same admission last year. They said they'd yet to meet a single Fortune Five Hundred company that hadn't accidentally hir

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Your Password Just Got Stolen. Here's What Actually Stops the Thief.
Jul 25, 2026•Episode 485•News

Your Password Just Got Stolen. Here's What Actually Stops the Thief.

Someone could have your exact password right now, the real one, letter for letter, and still get caught the second they start typing. Not because a system asks

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Your Face Is Now Your Punch Card. Nobody Asked You.
Jul 24, 2026•Episode 484•News

Your Face Is Now Your Punch Card. Nobody Asked You.

Most workers who get watched on the job never got a say in it. Not a heads up. Not a conversation. According to surveys behind a new law in Australia, more than

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Google Now Wants Your Face to Unlock Your Account — Here's the Scam Coming Next
Jul 24, 2026•Episode 483•News

Google Now Wants Your Face to Unlock Your Account: Here's the Scam Coming Next

You can't reset your face. A password, you change in thirty seconds. But if someone steals a scan of your face, that's permanent. And starting this summer, Go

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Your Face Is About to Live on Your Phone — 40 Million People Just Went First
Jul 24, 2026•Episode 482•News

Your Face Is About to Live on Your Phone: 40 Million People Just Went First

Nearly twenty million times, people in India have reached into an app and locked their own fingerprints and face away from the system. Not because the governmen

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"Facial Match: 98%" Might Mean Nothing. Here's the One Question That Reveals the
Jul 24, 2026•Episode 481•News

"Facial Match: 98%" Might Mean Nothing. Here's the One Question That Reveals the Truth.

That "ninety-eight percent facial match" you saw in a headline? On its own, it might mean almost nothing. The same number can describe three completely differen

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Your Watch Says 110 BPM. Should You Panic? Depends on One Thing.
Jul 23, 2026•Episode 480•News

Your Watch Says 110 BPM. Should You Panic? Depends on One Thing.

Your smartwatch flashes a warning. One hundred and ten beats per minute. Your stomach drops. But here's something that might surprise you, that exact same numbe

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One Phone Call Away From Losing Everything You Own Online
Jul 23, 2026•Episode 479•News

One Phone Call Away From Losing Everything You Own Online

A phone rang. A support agent answered. And by the time that call ended, a stranger had the keys to someone's entire digital life, their email, their bank, thei

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Your Face Is Forever. Only 5% Trust Companies to Protect It.
Jul 23, 2026•Episode 478•News

Your Face Is Forever. Only 5% Trust Companies to Protect It.

Just five percent. Out of everyone surveyed, only five percent trust companies to protect their biometric data. Two years earlier, that number was nearly thirty

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