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That "Try On Glasses" Button Just Mapped Your Face 468 Ways
Jul 23, 2026•Episode 353•News

That "Try On Glasses" Button Just Mapped Your Face 468 Ways

That little "try on these glasses" button on the eyewear website? The moment you clicked it, software mapped your face at four hundred and sixty-eight separate points. Not a photo. A measurement. The distance between your

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"Try On" Sunglasses Online? A Court Just Said Your Face Is Worth $5,000
Jul 22, 2026•Episode 352•News

"Try On" Sunglasses Online? A Court Just Said Your Face Is Worth $5,000

The exact same scan of your face can be perfectly legal in one room and worth five thousand dollars in a lawsuit in another. Same measurements. Same technology. But move it from a doctor's office to a shopping website, an

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The Scariest Deepfake Isn't a Face — It's the "Approved" Stamp on Your Company's Software
Jul 22, 2026•Episode 351•News

The Scariest Deepfake Isn't a Face — It's the "Approved" Stamp on Your Company's Software

You already trust it. Every day, your phone downloads an update, checks a little digital signature, sees a green checkmark, and installs it. No questions asked. But security researchers say attackers have figured out how to fake that checkmar

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Your Face at the Border Doesn't Get Deleted. It Gets Filed for 75 Years.
Jul 22, 2026•Episode 350•News

Your Face at the Border Doesn't Get Deleted. It Gets Filed for 75 Years.

The next time you walk through a border checkpoint and a camera snaps your face, here's something the sign won't tell you. That photo can sit in a government database for up to seventy-five years. Not seventy-five days. Seventy-five years. <b

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Someone Is Building a Fake You — And Your Bank Has 30 Seconds to Stop It
Jul 22, 2026•Episode 349•News

Someone Is Building a Fake You — And Your Bank Has 30 Seconds to Stop It

There's a version of you being built right now. Not stolen — built. It has your kind of name, a real-looking Social Security number, and a credit history that's been growing quietly for months. And a bank already believes it's a person. <bre

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Your Face, Their Loophole: Court Just Killed the "It's Healthcare" Excuse
Jul 22, 2026•Episode 348•News

Your Face, Their Loophole: Court Just Killed the "It's Healthcare" Excuse

The exact same face scan can be perfectly legal in one room and against the law in the room next door. Not because the technology changed. Because of where you were standing when it happened. <break

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"It's Healthcare" Won't Save Your Face Scan Anymore
Jul 21, 2026•Episode 347•News

"It's Healthcare" Won't Save Your Face Scan Anymore

When you use one of those virtual try-on tools to see how a pair of glasses looks on your face — the app is scanning the exact geometry of your face. And a company just tried to argue that because those glasses can be prescription, they didn'

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Your Kid's App Says "Verified" — Here's Why That's a Lie
Jul 21, 2026•Episode 346•News

Your Kid's App Says "Verified" — Here's Why That's a Lie

When your kid takes a selfie video to prove they're old enough for a chat app, that app isn't confirming who they are. It's making a guess. A probability. And right now, two of the biggest platforms y

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That Attack Ad About Your Local Candidate? A Laptop Made It — and No One Has to Tell You.
Jul 21, 2026•Episode 345•News

That Attack Ad About Your Local Candidate? A Laptop Made It — and No One Has to Tell You.

A candidate for county executive in St. Charles, Missouri, paid for a political attack ad. The people in the video? They weren't filmed. They were generated by a computer. And under Missouri law, nobo

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Your Face Is Being Scanned at the Grocery Store — and Washington Doesn't Make Them Tell You
Jul 21, 2026•Episode 344•News

Your Face Is Being Scanned at the Grocery Store — and Washington Doesn't Make Them Tell You

The next time you walk into a grocery store, a camera might turn your face into a string of code before you reach the produce aisle. In downtown Spokane, one discount grocery is already doing exactly that — measuring the

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"Better-Appearing Glasses Are Not Medical Treatment": The 4 Words That Just Changed Your Face-Scan Rights
Jul 21, 2026•Episode 343•News

"Better-Appearing Glasses Are Not Medical Treatment": The 4 Words That Just Changed Your Face-Scan Rights

Try on a pair of glasses online — the kind where you point your camera at your face and watch the frames appear? A federal court just ruled that a company doing exactly that can be sued for scanning your face without permission. <break time="

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Your Selfie Isn't a Photo Anymore — It's a Math File That Never Forgets Your Face
Jul 20, 2026•Episode 342•News

Your Selfie Isn't a Photo Anymore — It's a Math File That Never Forgets Your Face

You uploaded a selfie to try on some glasses. Just to see how the frames would look. But that photo? It didn't stay a photo. In the split second between your upload and the preview, invisible software turned your face into a string of numbers

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That "Quick Selfie to Verify" Could Be Handing Scammers Your Face
Jul 20, 2026•Episode 341•News

That "Quick Selfie to Verify" Could Be Handing Scammers Your Face

That "quick selfie to verify it's really you"? Scammers can now fake that too. According to LexisNexis Risk Solutions, one in every hundred identity checks that fails now involves a deepfake — a fake document, a fake phot

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That "Virtual Try-On" for Glasses? A Court Just Ruled It's Scanning Your Face — Not Your Health
Jul 20, 2026•Episode 340•News

That "Virtual Try-On" for Glasses? A Court Just Ruled It's Scanning Your Face — Not Your Health

You tried on a pair of glasses online. You clicked the little button that says "see how these look on you." Your webcam turned on, mapped your face, and showed you the frames. A federal court just ruled that scan wasn't healthcare — it was a

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Your Boss's AI Can Reject You Until 2027 — and Nobody Has to Prove It's Fair
Jul 20, 2026•Episode 339•News

Your Boss's AI Can Reject You Until 2027 — and Nobody Has to Prove It's Fair

A hiring algorithm can filter out more than a quarter of Black applicants — and starting next August, an A.I. system doing exactly that can enter the European market with no record of where its training data came from, and no proof it was eve

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Your Selfie Isn't What's Protecting You: The 4 Hidden Checks Running Behind Every ID Scan
Jul 20, 2026•Episode 338•News

Your Selfie Isn't What's Protecting You: The 4 Hidden Checks Running Behind Every ID Scan

When you take a selfie to prove who you are — to open a bank account, or unlock a service — you probably think the app is just checking whether your face matches your ID. But that selfie is only one of at least four separ

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That Urgent Video From Your Boss? Watch How the Face Moves — Not How It Looks
Jul 19, 2026•Episode 337•News

That Urgent Video From Your Boss? Watch How the Face Moves — Not How It Looks

The best deepfake detector doesn't look at the face at all. It watches how the face moves. And it turns out the most convincing fake video in the world gives itself away — not in the skin, not in the eyes, but in the motion between one frame

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Your Kid's Photo Is All These Apps Need to Make a Fake Nude
Jul 19, 2026•Episode 336•News

Your Kid's Photo Is All These Apps Need to Make a Fake Nude

More than a third of American teenagers say someone made a fake nude of them — without their consent. That's not a headline about celebrities. That's kids in ordinary schools, and the tools used to do it were sitting on the App Store. <break

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Your Face Got Scanned 2,600 Times. A Court Just Said That's One Violation.
Jul 19, 2026•Episode 335•News

Your Face Got Scanned 2,600 Times. A Court Just Said That's One Violation.

Picture this. You clock in at work every morning by scanning your fingerprint. You do it twice a day for five years. That's about twenty-six hundred scans of your body. And a federal court just decided that all of those scans count as one sin

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Your Face Got Scanned at Wegmans. Nobody Had to Tell You.
Jul 19, 2026•Episode 334•News

Your Face Got Scanned at Wegmans. Nobody Had to Tell You.

You walked into a Wegmans this year, picked up your groceries, and a camera turned your face into a string of numbers. You were never told. Wegmans admitted it — a handful of its stores were using facial recognition, quie

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Your Face Was Scanned Saturday. Nobody Asked If That Was Legal.
Jul 19, 2026•Episode 333•News

Your Face Was Scanned Saturday. Nobody Asked If That Was Legal.

Last month in Perth, Australia, a police van drove down public streets and scanned the faces of everyone who walked past. In one week, it captured more than a hundred and thirty thousand faces. And th

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Your Face Is Not a Password — And You Can't Reset It
Jul 18, 2026•Episode 332•News

Your Face Is Not a Password — And You Can't Reset It

There's a piece of malware called GoldPickaxe that doesn't want your password. It wants a video of your face. And once it has that, there's nothing you can do to take it back — because unlike a passwo

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Your Face Is Scanned Before You Grab a Basket — and California Stores Don't Have to Tell You
Jul 18, 2026•Episode 331•News

Your Face Is Scanned Before You Grab a Basket — and California Stores Don't Have to Tell You

The next time you walk into a Grocery Outlet in the Bay Area, a camera may scan your face before you even touch a shopping basket. You won't get a warning. You won't sign anything. And in California, the store doesn't hav

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Meta Put Face-Recognition Code on 50 Million Phones. Nobody Was Told.
Jul 18, 2026•Episode 330•News

Meta Put Face-Recognition Code on 50 Million Phones. Nobody Was Told.

Fifty million phones were carrying finished facial-recognition code — and almost nobody who installed the app knew it was there. It could spot a face. It could turn that face into a string of numbers. It could match that

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Your Driver's License Is About to Become Your AI Password
Jul 18, 2026•Episode 329•News

Your Driver's License Is About to Become Your AI Password

Anthropic just started asking people to upload a photo of their driver's license before they can use Claude — their A.I. chatbot. No regulation forced them to do it. They chose to, before anyone made

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