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Make Deepfake Videos: Pa. Trooper Gets Prison for Face Swap
Nov 3, 2026•Episode 900•News

Make Deepfake Videos: Pa. Trooper Gets Prison for Face Swap

A Pennsylvania state trooper used his work computer, and state photo databases, to make deepfake pornography of real people. Investigators say they found more

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Age Verification: Turkey Keeps IDs Away From Apps on Nov 1
Nov 3, 2026•Episode 899•News

Age Verification: Turkey Keeps IDs Away From Apps on Nov 1

Starting this November, a fourteen-year-old in Turkey who wants a social media account will have to ask the government for permission first. But the government

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Digital Identity Protection: Software Jails Grandma 5 Months
Nov 3, 2026•Episode 898•News

Digital Identity Protection: Software Jails Grandma 5 Months

A grandmother in Tennessee spent more than five months in jail for crimes in North Dakota. She says she'd never even been to that state. Her name is Angela Lipp

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Deepfake AI Apps: Pet Editors Hid Sexual Face Swap Tools
Nov 2, 2026•Episode 897•News

Deepfake AI Apps: Pet Editors Hid Sexual Face Swap Tools

Someone downloads a free app to put funny hats on their dog. Months later, that same app, on someone else's phone, was a tool for making sexual deepfakes. Sam

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Facial recognition in stores: Shoppers wrongly tied to crime
Nov 2, 2026•Episode 896•News

Facial recognition in stores: Shoppers wrongly tied to crime

A woman in Tennessee spent six months in jail for a crime in North Dakota. She'd never been to North Dakota. Police say a facial recognition system tied her to

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Biometric Face Scan: TSA Lets Fliers Say No at 250+ Lanes
Nov 2, 2026•Episode 895•News

Biometric Face Scan: TSA Lets Fliers Say No at 250+ Lanes

Most travelers who say yes to a face scan at the airport don't realize they could have said no. At T.S.A. checkpoints, you can decline the camera and still get

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Best AI Image Detector: Top Tool Wrong on 1 in 5 Images
Nov 2, 2026•Episode 894•News

Best AI Image Detector: Top Tool Wrong on 1 in 5 Images

Five different detection tools looked at the same A.I.-generated fake nude image. Most of them called it real. And that's not a fluke. It's what the testing kee

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Identity Verification Process: 4 Head Turns, Zero Proof
Nov 1, 2026•Episode 893•News

Identity Verification Process: 4 Head Turns, Zero Proof

Apple's new selfie age check asks you to turn your head in four directions. Then Apple says the picture is deleted, and that it isn't accessible to anyone, not

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Deepfake: Sydney Classmates' School Photos Turned Explicit
Nov 1, 2026•Episode 892•News

Deepfake: Sydney Classmates' School Photos Turned Explicit

Police in Sydney say a senior student used artificial intelligence to turn ordinary school photos of female classmates into explicit fake images. He allegedly t

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How to Tell If an ID Is Fake: Check the Face, Not the Card
Nov 1, 2026•Episode 891•News

How to Tell If an ID Is Fake: Check the Face, Not the Card

Law enforcement officers, even ones with specialized training, have a hard time telling a real driver's license from a good fake. That's according to federal pa

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Deepfake Nudes: NJ Man Charged, Where Victims Turn First
Oct 31, 2026•Episode 890•News

Deepfake Nudes: NJ Man Charged, Where Victims Turn First

Two women in Bergen County, New Jersey, found fake nude images of themselves online. The images carried their real names and their real photographs. Police say

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Canada Age Verification: 2 Bills, Zero Privacy Answers
Oct 31, 2026•Episode 889•News

Canada Age Verification: 2 Bills, Zero Privacy Answers

Picture a woman in Canada who uploads her driver's license to prove she's an adult. She does it once, for one app. Then a second site asks her to prove it again

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ASC Biometrics Appointment: 1 Missing Paper Can Cost 8 Weeks
Oct 31, 2026•Episode 888•News

ASC Biometrics Appointment: 1 Missing Paper Can Cost 8 Weeks

A twenty-minute appointment can quietly cost you eight weeks. And the reason isn't a long line or a broken machine. It's one piece of paper that you left on the

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Age Verification Device: Meta Wants Phones to Judge Kids
Oct 30, 2026•Episode 887•News

Age Verification Device: Meta Wants Phones to Judge Kids

Right now, a phone could decide whether your child is allowed on social media. It might make that call by looking at a selfie and guessing how old the face is.

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Age Verification: Ofcom's 4 Checks Could Block UK Adults Too
Oct 30, 2026•Episode 886•News

Age Verification: Ofcom's 4 Checks Could Block UK Adults Too

Picture a woman in her fifties, sitting on her sofa, trying to see a friend's holiday photos on Instagram. Her phone stops her. It wants her to prove she's ol

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Age Verification: Ofcom's 4 Checks Will Test Adults Too
Oct 30, 2026•Episode 885•News

Age Verification: Ofcom's 4 Checks Will Test Adults Too

Starting in March of twenty twenty-seven, a seventeen-year-old in the U.K. who wants a new Instagram account may have to show a bank-verified identity, a govern

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YouTube AI Age Verification: It Reads Searches, Not Faces
Oct 30, 2026•Episode 884•News

YouTube AI Age Verification: It Reads Searches, Not Faces

YouTube may have decided how old you are without ever looking at your face. It didn't scan a photo or check an I.D. It read what you search for, what you watch,

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Age Verification for Bars: Court Rules One ID Is Not Enough
Oct 29, 2026•Episode 883•News

Age Verification for Bars: Court Rules One ID Is Not Enough

A marriage in India was registered with just two pieces of paper. A school transfer certificate and an Aadhaar card. Nobody checked the actual birth date. And I

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GTA 6 age verification: Rockstar Fans May Need ID to Play
Oct 29, 2026•Episode 882•News

GTA 6 age verification: Rockstar Fans May Need ID to Play

Millions of adults could open GTA 6 on launch day and find the online mode locked. Not because they did anything wrong. Just because they didn't want to show a

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Delhi pension verification: Scammers Eye 4.4 Lakh Seniors
Oct 29, 2026•Episode 881•News

Delhi pension verification: Scammers Eye 4.4 Lakh Seniors

A sixty-five-year-old retired man in India installed what looked like a pension verification app. Police say it drained about twenty-eight lakh rupees from his

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Facial Recognition iPhone: $32.5B Suit Over Faces in Photos
Oct 29, 2026•Episode 880•News

Facial Recognition iPhone: $32.5B Suit Over Faces in Photos

Your phone may have built a mathematical index of every face in your photo library. That includes people who've never touched your phone, and never agreed to an

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Facial Recognition Bias: What 905,117 Police Scans Hide
Oct 28, 2026•Episode 879•News

Facial Recognition Bias: What 905,117 Police Scans Hide

Western Australia Police scanned the faces of more than nine hundred thousand people in three months. They report that eight of those scans pointed at the wrong

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Age Verification Florida: Chatbots Next, Then Every Phone
Oct 28, 2026•Episode 878•News

Age Verification Florida: Chatbots Next, Then Every Phone

Florida's attorney general wants every person who owns a smartphone to prove their age to the phone itself. Not just kids. Adults too. And the same proposal wou

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Facial Recognition iPhone: Photos App Faces $32.5B Lawsuit
Oct 28, 2026•Episode 877•News

Facial Recognition iPhone: Photos App Faces $32.5B Lawsuit

Your iPhone has probably scanned the face of every person in your photo library, including strangers who happened to stand behind you at a birthday party. It ne

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Roblox Age Verification Bypass: CEO Sued, Only 51% Verified
Oct 28, 2026•Episode 876•News

Roblox Age Verification Bypass: CEO Sued, Only 51% Verified

Roblox told investors that checking kids' ages wouldn't hurt long-term growth. Then the checks went live in January, and a shareholder says the daily player num

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