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Reverse Image Search: Why a 95% Match Proves Nothing
Sep 24, 2026•Episode 775•News

Reverse Image Search: Why a 95% Match Proves Nothing

Someone falls in love online. They send money. And the face they trusted this whole time? It belongs to a total stranger who never knew their photo was stolen.

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Anti Facial Recognition Glasses: 5 of 5 Cameras Still Matched
Sep 24, 2026•Episode 774•News

Anti Facial Recognition Glasses: 5 of 5 Cameras Still Matched

You buy a pair of glasses that promise to make you invisible to facial recognition. You put them on. And every single camera still knows exactly who you are. In

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YouTube Age Verification: When AI Guesses Wrong, Faces Pay
Sep 24, 2026•Episode 773•News

YouTube Age Verification: When AI Guesses Wrong, Faces Pay

Right now, YouTube is quietly guessing how old you are. Not by asking. Not by checking an I.D. It's reading what you searched, what you watched, and how fast yo

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Police facial recognition: AI tossed 94% of 108,000 faces
Sep 24, 2026•Episode 772•News

Police facial recognition: AI tossed 94% of 108,000 faces

Investigators pulled more than a hundred thousand faces out of terrorist propaganda videos. Before a single human looked at any of them, software threw away nin

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Deepfake: 15 Dutch Lawmakers Demand a Crackdown
Sep 24, 2026•Episode 771•News

Deepfake: 15 Dutch Lawmakers Demand a Crackdown

One in four women in the Dutch parliament has had her face pasted into a fake pornographic video. Not a threat. Not a warning. Something that already happened,

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Age verification: UK pubs now accept a phone tap, not ID
Sep 24, 2026•Episode 770•News

Age verification: UK pubs now accept a phone tap, not ID

Walk into a pub in England now, order a pint, and the bartender might not ask for your driver's license. Instead, you tap your phone. A certified app confirms y

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Biometric Authentication: 40% of Systems a Photo Can Fool
Sep 24, 2026•Episode 769•News

Biometric Authentication: 40% of Systems a Photo Can Fool

A printed photograph, just paper and ink, can unlock a shocking number of facial recognition systems. Not a blurry one. A crisp, high-quality print of someone's

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How to Protect Yourself From Identity Theft: 6 Free Moves
Sep 23, 2026•Episode 768•News

How to Protect Yourself From Identity Theft: 6 Free Moves

Most people who get their identity stolen don't find out for four months. Not four days. Four months. According to academic research on financial crime, nearly

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AI voice cloning scam: 3 seconds of audio steals a voice
Sep 23, 2026•Episode 767•News

AI voice cloning scam: 3 seconds of audio steals a voice

Pick up the phone. Say "hello." Nobody answers. The line goes dead. You think, wrong number. But security researchers say that silence wasn't empty. In those fe

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Age verification: Ofcom's £18M pornography crackdown
Sep 23, 2026•Episode 766•News

Age verification: Ofcom's £18M pornography crackdown

A British regulator just told Pornhub that hiring Apple wasn't enough. The company said it would use Apple's system to check that users are over eighteen. And t

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Facial Recognition Camera: 200 Sainsbury's Stores Scan Your Face
Sep 23, 2026•Episode 765•News

Facial Recognition Camera: 200 Sainsbury's Stores Scan Your Face

A shopper walked into a Sainsbury's store, picked up their groceries, and got pulled aside as a suspected thief. They hadn't stolen anything. A camera scanned t

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KYC Process: Why the Bank Selfie Maps 68 Face Points
Sep 23, 2026•Episode 764•News

KYC Process: Why the Bank Selfie Maps 68 Face Points

When your bank asks for a selfie, it's not really checking your face against your I.D. It's checking whether a real, three-dimensional human being is holding th

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How to Prevent Identity Theft: 4 Kinds, 1 Leads to Jail
Sep 22, 2026•Episode 763•News

How to Prevent Identity Theft: 4 Kinds, 1 Leads to Jail

Somebody could steal your identity and hand it to the police, and the first thing you'd know about it is a warrant with your name on it. Not a drained bank acco

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EU Age Verification: ID Scans Replace the Online Checkbox
Sep 22, 2026•Episode 762•News

EU Age Verification: ID Scans Replace the Online Checkbox

That little box you click that says "I am eighteen"? In Europe, it's about to disappear. Instead, you might be asked to open an app and scan your actual passpor

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Deepfake: 1 in 4 Teen Abuse Cases, One Photo Enough
Sep 22, 2026•Episode 761•News

Deepfake: 1 in 4 Teen Abuse Cases, One Photo Enough

A photo you posted at fifteen, a school picture, a beach day, a smile you forgot about, is all someone needs now. Researchers in Australia surveyed nearly ninet

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Facial recognition camera: face recognition in 200 stores
Sep 22, 2026•Episode 760•News

Facial recognition camera: face recognition in 200 stores

A shopper walked into a Sainsbury's in London. A camera at the door scanned her face. And within moments, the system flagged her as a shoplifter. She wasn't one

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Age Verification Discord Uses: 10-Second Scan Misses Adults
Sep 22, 2026•Episode 759•News

Age Verification Discord Uses: 10-Second Scan Misses Adults

Discord added a face scan to keep kids safe, but that same kind of check has a strange blind spot. It's often worse at recognizing young adults than older ones.

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Character AI Age Verification: A Teen's ID in a Database
Sep 21, 2026•Episode 758•News

Character AI Age Verification: A Teen's ID in a Database

After a 14-year-old died following months of chats with a Character.AI bot, age checks arrived on these apps. What happens to the face and ID data they collect?

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AI voice cloning: fake relatives cost Greeks €1 million
Sep 21, 2026•Episode 757•News

AI voice cloning: fake relatives cost Greeks €1 million

It takes three seconds. Three seconds of someone's voice, pulled from a video, a voicemail, a social post, and a scammer can make that person say anything. In G

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Biometric login: fake IT calls hand scammers a work account
Sep 21, 2026•Episode 756•News

Biometric login: fake IT calls hand scammers a work account

The phone rings at your desk. It's I.T. support. They say your account needs a new passkey, that new, password-free login everyone's switching to. They sound ca

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Medical Identity Theft: 210 Hours to Fix a Wrong Chart
Sep 21, 2026•Episode 755•News

Medical Identity Theft: 210 Hours to Fix a Wrong Chart

Imagine you're rushed into an emergency room after a car accident. You need blood, fast. But the blood type in your file isn't yours, it belongs to someone who

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Identity Verification Process: 128 Numbers Stored With an ID
Sep 20, 2026•Episode 754•News

Identity Verification Process: 128 Numbers Stored With an ID

The next time you snap a selfie to verify your identity, something strange happens to your face. It stops being a picture. It becomes a list of exactly one hund

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Deepfake video detection: 60 faked, one security sign
Sep 20, 2026•Episode 753•News

Deepfake video detection: 60 faked, one security sign

A seventy-four-year-old retiree in the Netherlands sat down at a computer and, prosecutors say, turned about sixty real people into fake sex videos. Among them,

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Biometrics: Fake Passkey Texts Hijack Microsoft 365
Sep 20, 2026•Episode 752•News

Biometrics: Fake Passkey Texts Hijack Microsoft 365

The phone rings. It's someone from your company's tech support. They sound calm, professional. They tell you your account needs a quick security update, a new p

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Google Age Verification: 14 Days Before Accounts Vanish
Sep 20, 2026•Episode 751•News

Google Age Verification: 14 Days Before Accounts Vanish

Google might already have a guess about how old you are, and it didn't get that number from your birthday. It got it from what you search for. From what you wat

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