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Proof of Identity: 3 Tiers That Decide Who Gets Turned Away
Sep 28, 2026•Episode 800•News

Proof of Identity: 3 Tiers That Decide Who Gets Turned Away

A notarized copy of your birth certificate can get you turned away at the D.M.V. Stamped, signed, perfectly official-looking. Rejected. And the logic behind tha

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Facial St. Louis: One Number Jailed Wrong Man 17 Months
Sep 27, 2026•Episode 799•News

Facial St. Louis: One Number Jailed Wrong Man 17 Months

Christopher Gatlin spent about seventeen months behind bars. The thing that first pointed police to him? A computer's guess, built from a blurry frame of survei

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Biometric Access: Bangladesh's $748M ID Has No Clear Backup
Sep 27, 2026•Episode 798•News

Biometric Access: Bangladesh's $748M ID Has No Clear Backup

In South Korea, one fire in one government data center knocked more than six hundred public systems offline. By late September, officials had brought back only

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How to Reset Face ID: Turning It Off Leaves the Face Map
Sep 27, 2026•Episode 797•News

How to Reset Face ID: Turning It Off Leaves the Face Map

When you switch off Face ID on your iPhone, your face doesn't go anywhere. A mathematical map of it stays sealed inside the phone. Many people who've turned it

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Age Verification Law: Predators Pass It, Then Message Kids
Sep 26, 2026•Episode 796•News

Age Verification Law: Predators Pass It, Then Message Kids

Across the U.S., roughly half of all states now require strict age checks online. And not one of those checks stops a grown adult from messaging your kid while

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Facial Recognition: Technology Fakes Face, Steals R$100,000
Sep 26, 2026•Episode 795•News

Facial Recognition: Technology Fakes Face, Steals R$100,000

A face on a phone screen blinks. It turns its head. It smiles on cue. But the person behind that face never recorded a single second of it. According to Brazi

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Instagram Verification: How a Paid Badge Hid an $8M Scam
Sep 26, 2026•Episode 794•News

Instagram Verification: How a Paid Badge Hid an $8M Scam

That little blue checkmark next to a name on Instagram? For about thirteen years, it meant a real person at the company had checked who you were. Today, on most

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AI Deepfake Scam News Today: Fake Video Call Costs Bank €95M
Sep 26, 2026•Episode 793•News

AI Deepfake Scam News Today: Fake Video Call Costs Bank €95M

In February, the chairman of an Italian private bank got a WhatsApp message. It appeared to come from the chief executive of the banking group that owns his fir

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Fingerprint Scanner: Gel Fingers Fool It 70% of the Time
Sep 26, 2026•Episode 792•News

Fingerprint Scanner: Gel Fingers Fool It 70% of the Time

The fingerprint that unlocks your phone doesn't have to be attached to a living hand. According to researchers behind a study called Fingerprint Spoof Buster,

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Age assurance: EU Plan Bars Under-13s, Tests Kids' Privacy
Sep 26, 2026•Episode 791•News

Age assurance: EU Plan Bars Under-13s, Tests Kids' Privacy

Nearly eight in ten European kids between ten and fifteen have already slipped past the age limits on their apps. Most of them didn't hack anything. They just t

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Baby Passport Photo: Why a Parent's Hand Gets It Rejected
Sep 26, 2026•Episode 790•News

Baby Passport Photo: Why a Parent's Hand Gets It Rejected

The most common reason a baby's passport photo gets rejected isn't a blurry shot or a bad background. It's a parent's hand. Even a single fingertip creeping in

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Deepfake AI: One Public Photo Is All Blackmailers Need
Sep 26, 2026•Episode 789•News

Deepfake AI: One Public Photo Is All Blackmailers Need

One ordinary photo. A school picture, a team photo, a smiling selfie from the beach. According to child-safety researchers, that's all a criminal now needs to c

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How Does Facial Recognition Work: 512 Numbers, Wrong Arrests
Sep 26, 2026•Episode 788•News

How Does Facial Recognition Work: 512 Numbers, Wrong Arrests

Somewhere right now, a computer could describe your face without storing a single picture of it. It would use a list of roughly five hundred numbers. And when i

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Biometric Lock: How a 12-Year-Old's Finger Opened a Gun Safe
Sep 26, 2026•Episode 787•News

Biometric Lock: How a 12-Year-Old's Finger Opened a Gun Safe

A twelve-year-old boy opened his father's fingerprint gun safe using his own finger. That safe had never been taught his fingerprint. It didn't need to be.

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Voice Cloning Technology: $500 Buys Scammers a Kid's Voice
Sep 26, 2026•Episode 786•News

Voice Cloning Technology: $500 Buys Scammers a Kid's Voice

A grandmother in Canada picked up her phone and heard her grandson's voice. He said he'd been arrested. He needed money, and he needed it fast. She headed to he

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Facial Recognition Glasses: 1 Glance Pulls a Home Address
Sep 25, 2026•Episode 785•News

Facial Recognition Glasses: 1 Glance Pulls a Home Address

Two college students at Harvard put on a pair of ordinary-looking smart glasses. They walked up to strangers. And within seconds, their system could pull up a s

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Social Media Age Verification Laws: 3 Checks, 3 Data Risks
Sep 25, 2026•Episode 784•News

Social Media Age Verification Laws: 3 Checks, 3 Data Risks

Seventy thousand people uploaded a photo of their government I.D. to Discord, just to prove how old they were. In a breach last year, those images got out. Now

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Passport Photo Requirements: Why a Smile Breaks the Math
Sep 25, 2026•Episode 783•News

Passport Photo Requirements: Why a Smile Breaks the Math

That serious face you're forced to make in your passport photo? It's not because some clerk wants you to look intimidating. It's because a machine has to measur

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Deepfake video call: police warn after $622,000 theft
Sep 25, 2026•Episode 782•News

Deepfake video call: police warn after $622,000 theft

A man in Inner Mongolia got a video call from a friend. He could see his friend's face. He could hear his voice. The friend needed money for a business deposit,

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Deepfake AI App: One Photo, 225,000 School Fakes
Sep 25, 2026•Episode 781•News

Deepfake AI App: One Photo, 225,000 School Fakes

According to survey data from U.S. schools, as many as two hundred and twenty-five thousand deepfake nudes may have circulated in a single school year. Not of c

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Deepfake lawsuit: Grok turned a clothed photo into abuse
Sep 25, 2026•Episode 780•News

Deepfake lawsuit: Grok turned a clothed photo into abuse

A photographer in Bentonville, Arkansas took a normal photo of a little girl. A professional shoot. She was fully dressed. Then someone fed that photo into an A

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AI Deepfake Laws: 15,736 Victims in Six Months
Sep 25, 2026•Episode 779•News

AI Deepfake Laws: 15,736 Victims in Six Months

A middle school student in Henderson is now facing charges. Police say the student used artificial intelligence to create explicit fake images of classmates, an

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Facial Recognition Software: 14 Wrongful Arrests So Far
Sep 25, 2026•Episode 778•News

Facial Recognition Software: 14 Wrongful Arrests So Far

An algorithm can be ninety-nine point nine percent accurate in a lab, and still put an innocent person in jail. Fourteen people in the United States have been w

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Deepfake Technology: 350 Fake Nudes Made by Two 14-Year-Olds
Sep 25, 2026•Episode 777•News

Deepfake Technology: 350 Fake Nudes Made by Two 14-Year-Olds

Two fourteen-year-olds. One laptop. Three hundred and fifty fake nude images of their own classmates. According to reporting on a Pennsylvania case from March o

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2K Face Scan: 13 Photos Amazon Stores Indefinitely
Sep 25, 2026•Episode 776•News

2K Face Scan: 13 Photos Amazon Stores Indefinitely

You pointed your phone at your face to make a basketball avatar. Thirteen photos, a quick spin of your head, and there you were in the game. But according to a

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