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Deepfake Financial Fraud: $40B Problem, 1 Habit to Stop It
Oct 18, 2026•Episode 850•News

Deepfake Financial Fraud: $40B Problem, 1 Habit to Stop It

A finance worker in Hong Kong joined a video call with his company's chief financial officer and several colleagues. Every single person on that call was fake.

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TSA Facial Recognition: No Proof Passport Photos Got Deleted
Oct 18, 2026•Episode 849•News

TSA Facial Recognition: No Proof Passport Photos Got Deleted

A federal audit found that a contractor working on TSA's facial recognition system could pull passport and driver's license images off the machines. TSA didn't

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Deepfake: Apple Bans Nudify Apps, but Grok Still Stays Put
Oct 18, 2026•Episode 848•News

Deepfake: Apple Bans Nudify Apps, but Grok Still Stays Put

Apple just banned apps that create fake nude images of real people. But two of the biggest tools behind that abuse, Grok and X, are still sitting in the App Sto

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Biometrics Appointment USCIS: 2 Things to Bring, 3 They Take
Oct 18, 2026•Episode 847•News

Biometrics Appointment USCIS: 2 Things to Bring, 3 They Take

Missing one piece of paper can turn a twenty-minute government appointment into months of waiting. And that paper isn't hard to find. It's the notice you alread

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UK Online Safety Act: Ofcom's 3 Age Checks Every Adult Faces
Oct 17, 2026•Episode 846•News

UK Online Safety Act: Ofcom's 3 Age Checks Every Adult Faces

Since July twenty-fifth, twenty twenty-five, an adult in Britain who wants to watch certain videos on Reddit, X, or Bluesky may have to show a computer their fa

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Missouri Age Verification: App Scans IDs to Shield Children
Oct 17, 2026•Episode 845•News

Missouri Age Verification: App Scans IDs to Shield Children

Missouri has built a free phone app that lets a store clerk scan the back of your driver's license. According to the state, the app checks your age and then fo

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Biometric Facial Recognition: 1 Bad Match, 80 Days in Jail
Oct 17, 2026•Episode 844•News

Biometric Facial Recognition: 1 Bad Match, 80 Days in Jail

A man named Robert Dillon spent more than eighty days in jail. The police said a computer was ninety-three percent sure he was the suspect. He was three hundred

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Age Verification Georgia: ID Scanning Could Reach All Adults
Oct 16, 2026•Episode 843•News

Age Verification Georgia: ID Scanning Could Reach All Adults

Georgia just got the green light to enforce a law that makes social media companies figure out how old you are. And a birthday you type into a box no longer co

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Identity Theft Affidavit: 3 Mistakes That Sink Victims
Oct 16, 2026•Episode 842•News

Identity Theft Affidavit: 3 Mistakes That Sink Victims

A man walked into a bank to report that someone had stolen his identity. The bank called the police on him. William Woods then spent four hundred and twenty-eig

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Age verification: Google and Bing now check Aussie adults
Oct 15, 2026•Episode 841•News

Age verification: Google and Bing now check Aussie adults

In Australia, being a grown-up isn't enough anymore. You have to prove it. And starting 06/27/2026, that includes signed-in users of Google and Bing.

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Face Bank: Wrong Identity Match Jails Grandmother 6 Months
Oct 15, 2026•Episode 840•News

Face Bank: Wrong Identity Match Jails Grandmother 6 Months

Angela Lipps was babysitting her neighbor's kids when police came to arrest her. She's a fifty-year-old grandmother of five from Tennessee. She would spend

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Apple Age Verification: App Store Hides Kids' Birth Dates
Oct 14, 2026•Episode 839•News

Apple Age Verification: App Store Hides Kids' Birth Dates

A thirteen-year-old can type a fake birthday into an app in about three seconds. To stop that, a lot of websites now want something far more personal from every

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Deepfake Laws by State: Sony Fights 260,000 AI Fake Songs
Oct 14, 2026•Episode 838•News

Deepfake Laws by State: Sony Fights 260,000 AI Fake Songs

Somewhere right now, a fan is streaming what sounds like a brand-new song from an artist they love. The voice is right. The style is right. But the artist never

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Passport Photo Guidelines: Why 1 in 4 Photos Get Rejected
Oct 14, 2026•Episode 837•News

Passport Photo Guidelines: Why 1 in 4 Photos Get Rejected

According to one analysis of State Department photo reviews, roughly one in four passport photos gets rejected. Most of those people didn't do anything wrong wi

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Social Media Age Verification: Apps Want Parents' IDs Next
Oct 13, 2026•Episode 836•News

Social Media Age Verification: Apps Want Parents' IDs Next

A parent in New York sits down to help their fourteen-year-old open a social media account. Soon, the app may ask the kid to prove their age. And then it may as

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AI Voice Cloning: 3 Seconds of Audio Can Fake a Loved One
Oct 13, 2026•Episode 835•News

AI Voice Cloning: 3 Seconds of Audio Can Fake a Loved One

Three seconds. According to the A.I. security firm Vectra, that's all the audio a scammer needs to start copying your voice. Three seconds can produce a clone t

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Deepfake: Fake Kiss Photo of Georgia Mayor Outran the Law
Oct 13, 2026•Episode 834•News

Deepfake: Fake Kiss Photo of Georgia Mayor Outran the Law

A mayor in Georgia opened her phone and found a photo of herself kissing a man. He wasn't her husband. And the kiss never happened. Her name is Bianca Motley

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Biometric Information: One Face Scan Can Cost a Firm $5,000
Oct 13, 2026•Episode 833•News

Biometric Information: One Face Scan Can Cost a Firm $5,000

In one state, a company can owe you five thousand dollars for scanning your face. Even if nothing bad ever happens to that scan. No hack. No leak. No misuse. Ju

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Janhvi Kapoor Deepfake: Any Face Online Can Be Faked
Oct 12, 2026•Episode 832•News

Janhvi Kapoor Deepfake: Any Face Online Can Be Faked

One of India's best-known film stars says what happened to her is "bordering on sexual assault." Her name is Janhvi Kapoor. And she says the images at the cente

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Deepfake Financial Fraud: Cloned Bosses Steal €95 Million
Oct 12, 2026•Episode 831•News

Deepfake Financial Fraud: Cloned Bosses Steal €95 Million

Staff at an Italian private bank joined a video call with their senior executives. The faces looked right. The voices sounded right. So they approved the tra

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Airport Biometrics: 13 UK Gates Scan Faces, Not Passports
Oct 12, 2026•Episode 830•News

Airport Biometrics: 13 UK Gates Scan Faces, Not Passports

At thirteen U.K. airports, your passport may soon stay in your pocket. A camera at the border gate will check your face instead. It'll compare you to a photo yo

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Biometric Digital ID: One Leak Opens Every Door, Forever
Oct 12, 2026•Episode 829•News

Biometric Digital ID: One Leak Opens Every Door, Forever

In New Delhi, an eighty-year-old woman went most of a year without her food rations. Nobody accused her of fraud. Her fingerprints had simply worn down, and the

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What Is Identity Verification: Apple Cash Wants ID for $1
Oct 11, 2026•Episode 828•News

What Is Identity Verification: Apple Cash Wants ID for $1

Starting 11/09/2026, putting even one dollar into Apple Cash will mean proving who you are first. Not five hundred dollars. One dollar. That's the new l

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Facial Recognition: Grandmother Jailed Months, Sues for $10M
Oct 11, 2026•Episode 827•News

Facial Recognition: Grandmother Jailed Months, Sues for $10M

Angela Lipps was in Tennessee when a string of bank thefts happened in North Dakota. Her own bank records prove it. She still spent months behind bars for those

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AI Blackmail: 1 Selfie and an AI Model Is All Scammers Need
Oct 11, 2026•Episode 826•News

AI Blackmail: 1 Selfie and an AI Model Is All Scammers Need

Police in Canada say kids are being blackmailed with nude photos of themselves. Photos they never took. In many cases, the blackmailer started with nothing more

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