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Your Bank's Back Door Is a Selfie and a Sticky Note
Jul 31, 2026•Episode 391•News

Your Bank's Back Door Is a Selfie and a Sticky Note

Picture this. You've built a bank vault with steel walls, biometric scanners, and a retina check at the door. Then, around the back, there's a screen door held shut with a sticky note. That's not a me

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That "99% Accurate" Badge Protecting Your Bank Account? It Expired Months Ago
Jul 31, 2026•Episode 390•News

That "99% Accurate" Badge Protecting Your Bank Account? It Expired Months Ago

That "ninety-nine percent accurate" badge protecting your bank account? There's a good chance it expired months ago. Not because the technology broke — but because the criminals moved on, and the test didn't. If you've

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A Fake Video of Your Boss Just Dropped. Do These 3 Things Before Anyone Speaks.
Jul 30, 2026•Episode 389•News

A Fake Video of Your Boss Just Dropped. Do These 3 Things Before Anyone Speaks.

A video of your boss surfaces online. They're saying something shocking — something that could tank the company or ruin a reputation. And here's what stops most people cold. You can no longer trust your own eyes to tell y

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Your Neighbor's Doorbell Just Put Your Face in Amazon's Database
Jul 30, 2026•Episode 388•News

Your Neighbor's Doorbell Just Put Your Face in Amazon's Database

The last time you walked up to a friend's front door, a camera may have scanned your face. It measured the distance between your eyes. It built a faceprint. And it stored that faceprint in a system you never agreed to joi

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Your Face Is Your Passport Now — and You Never Agreed to It
Jul 30, 2026•Episode 387•News

Your Face Is Your Passport Now — and You Never Agreed to It

Nearly all U.S. travelers who walk through a facial recognition scan at the airport were never told they could say no. Ninety-nine out of a hundred. The right to opt out exists on paper. Almost nobody

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That Annoying 3-Second Selfie? It's Asking If You're Really You.
Jul 30, 2026•Episode 386•News

That Annoying 3-Second Selfie? It's Asking If You're Really You.

That three-second selfie your bank made you take? The one where you turn your head and blink? That's not really checking your face. It's asking a much stranger question — is there a real, unique human on the other end of this screen at all.

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Before Facial Recognition Names You, It Has to Find You — And That's Where It Quietly Fails
Jul 29, 2026•Episode 385•News

Before Facial Recognition Names You, It Has to Find You — And That's Where It Quietly Fails

Here's something that happens every single time facial recognition looks at a photo — and almost nobody knows it's happening. Before the software can ask "who is this person," it has to answer a much simpler question firs

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Roblox Says Your Kid Is Safer Now. Here's What They're Not Telling You.
Jul 29, 2026•Episode 384•News

Roblox Says Your Kid Is Safer Now. Here's What They're Not Telling You.

If your kid plays Roblox, a camera may now scan their face before they can send a single chat message. That's not a glitch. That's the new rule. Roblox now checks a child's age by scanning their face

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The Stranger Next to You Is Wearing a Camera — and It Knows Your Address
Jul 29, 2026•Episode 383•News

The Stranger Next to You Is Wearing a Camera — and It Knows Your Address

Two students at Harvard took a pair of ordinary-looking smart glasses and turned them into something out of a nightmare. The glasses spotted a stranger's face on the street. Then, within seconds, they pulled up that person's name, phone numbe

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That "Proof" Video in Your Group Chat? Here's the 4-Question Test Courts Now Use
Jul 29, 2026•Episode 382•News

That "Proof" Video in Your Group Chat? Here's the 4-Question Test Courts Now Use

A middle school principal in Baltimore woke up one day to threatening messages, police protection at his house, and a career on pause. The reason? A recording of him making racist remarks. Except he n

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Your Memory Of That Face Is Lying To You — Here's The Proof
Jul 28, 2026•Episode 381•News

Your Memory Of That Face Is Lying To You — Here's The Proof

Some people can't picture a single face in their mind. Not their mother's. Not their own. Close your eyes, try to see someone you love — and there's nothing there. Just darkness. And here's what stopped me cold when I rea

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Your Face Is About to Unlock Your Phone Number — Whether You Like It or Not
Jul 28, 2026•Episode 380•News

Your Face Is About to Unlock Your Phone Number — Whether You Like It or Not

In Indonesia, ten million people scanned their faces to keep their phone numbers — and most of that happened in just three weeks. Not new customers. People who already had a phone, now scanning their face to prove the num

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Your Face Is About to Replace Your Credit Card at the Grocery Store. Read This First.
Jul 28, 2026•Episode 379•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's not alone. Amazon and T-Mobile are facing similar legal fi

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They Paid $10 for Her Iris Scan. Now Her City Wants $47 Million Back.
Jul 28, 2026•Episode 378•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 their iris — the colored ring around your pu

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That Voice on the Phone Sounds Exactly Like Your Boss. It Takes 5 Minutes to Fake.
Jul 28, 2026•Episode 377•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 Hollywood studio. Five minutes, a few photos, and a short clip of them talking.<break

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That 3-Second Selfie Check? It's Actually Running 3 Hidden Tests on You
Jul 27, 2026•Episode 376•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 you only feel like it's one. Most people think the system is

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Your Car's Daily Route Is Now Identity Data — And Nobody's Deleting It
Jul 27, 2026•Episode 375•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 state law, nobody has to ever delete it.

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Your Face, 47 Times a Night: The New Law That Turns Your Phone Into a Checkpoint
Jul 27, 2026•Episode 374•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 wager. Every time you cash out. Lawmakers

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Your Face Just Became the Master Key to Your Entire Life — and You Can't Change It
Jul 27, 2026•Episode 373•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 Chinese phone makers are testing sensors that map your face in th

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That "Live" Video of You? A Deepfake Can Blink on Command Now.
Jul 27, 2026•Episode 372•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 trick of asking someone to blink to prove they're real? Attac

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That 95% Face Match? Fake Faces Decided If You Can Trust It
Jul 26, 2026•Episode 371•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 faces. Computer-generated people who were never born — and t

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Your Face Is Your Ticket Now — And You Can't Reset It Like a Password
Jul 26, 2026•Episode 370•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, three out of four fans were doing it.

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"Your Account Closes in 2 Hours" — The 6 Words Draining Bank Accounts Tonight
Jul 26, 2026•Episode 369•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 real. There's no countdown clock at your bank. It's a button des

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Your Face Is Becoming Your ID — And You Can't Fix It When It's Wrong
Jul 26, 2026•Episode 368•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. That era is quietly ending. And what's re

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The Fingerprint Scanner at Work Doesn't Know You. Someone Set a Dial That Decides If You Get In.
Jul 26, 2026•Episode 367•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 number — that decides whether you're close enough to get in. <

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