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Biometric Verification: 326 Fake IDs Scanned Just Fine
Sep 19, 2026•Episode 750•News

Biometric Verification: 326 Fake IDs Scanned Just Fine

Between twenty twenty-one and this past August, Malaysian authorities logged three hundred and twenty-six cases of fake or misused identity cards. And here's wh

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UK Age Verification: Pubs Now Legal to Take Phone ID
Sep 19, 2026•Episode 749•News

UK Age Verification: Pubs Now Legal to Take Phone ID

Picture handing your driver's license to a bartender. Now they know your name, your home address, your exact birthday, everything printed on that card. Starting

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Age Verification Roblox: 31 Lawsuits Test Section 230
Sep 19, 2026•Episode 748•News

Age Verification Roblox: 31 Lawsuits Test Section 230

A California judge is deciding whether the video game where your kid builds worlds with blocks can be sued for how it was designed, not for what strangers said

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Social media age verification laws: Malaysia now IDs children
Sep 19, 2026•Episode 747•News

Social media age verification laws: Malaysia now IDs children

To open a social media account in Malaysia today, you have to hand over a government I.D., a national identity card or a passport. If you're under sixteen, you

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Remote Identity Proofing: 3 Checks the Selfie Can't Do
Sep 19, 2026•Episode 746•News

Remote Identity Proofing: 3 Checks the Selfie Can't Do

When you upload a photo of your I.D. and then snap a quick selfie, you probably assume those two steps are doing the same job, checking that your face matches y

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National Digital Identity: 24.4M Filipinos Bank With One ID
Sep 18, 2026•Episode 745•News

National Digital Identity: 24.4M Filipinos Bank With One ID

Twenty-four point four million people in the Philippines now open a bank account using a single verified identity. That's not twenty-four million separate ID ch

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Police Facial Recognition: System Named a Living Man Dead
Sep 18, 2026•Episode 744•News

Police Facial Recognition: System Named a Living Man Dead

A computer told police that an eighteen-year-old man was dead. It named him as someone else entirely, a criminal from a different city. The only reason anyone c

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AI Voice Cloning Scam: 3 Seconds of Audio, $893M Lost
Sep 18, 2026•Episode 743•News

AI Voice Cloning Scam: 3 Seconds of Audio, $893M Lost

Scammers need just three seconds of your voice to clone it. Three seconds. That's less time than it takes to leave a voicemail greeting, and it's enough to make

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Age verification software: court orders birth proof checks
Sep 18, 2026•Episode 742•News

Age verification software: court orders birth proof checks

A court in India just made a discovery that should stop you cold. Marriages between children, kids legally too young to marry, were being officially registered

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Biometrics: 5 Sleep Numbers Map a Woman's Cycle Daily
Sep 18, 2026•Episode 741•News

Biometrics: 5 Sleep Numbers Map a Woman's Cycle Daily

Stanford researchers just mapped a woman's menstrual cycle down to the day, using only five measurements from the kind of sleep tracker millions of people alrea

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Biometric consent: Japan shields kids under 16 by law
Sep 17, 2026•Episode 740•News

Biometric consent: Japan shields kids under 16 by law

Imagine a school sends you a message. It says, "We need to scan your child's face to verify their identity at the entrance." You want your kid to be safe, so yo

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UK age verification: pub face scans miss 1 in 6
Sep 17, 2026•Episode 739•News

UK age verification: pub face scans miss 1 in 6

Picture yourself second in line at a busy pub on a Friday night. The lighting's dim. You hold up your phone to prove you're old enough to buy a drink. And for a

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Deepfake scams: Singapore acts as fraud attempts jump 1,300%
Sep 17, 2026•Episode 738•News

Deepfake scams: Singapore acts as fraud attempts jump 1,300%

Picture this. You join a video call with your company's chief financial officer. You can see his face. You can hear his voice. He tells you to wire millions of

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Deepfake impersonation: one fake call cost $25 million
Sep 17, 2026•Episode 737•News

Deepfake impersonation: one fake call cost $25 million

An employee sat on a video call with their company's chief financial officer. The boss's face, the boss's voice, the boss's gestures, all of it looked real. Non

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Biometric Payment: The Fingerprint Never Leaves the Phone
Sep 17, 2026•Episode 736•News

Biometric Payment: The Fingerprint Never Leaves the Phone

When you press your thumb to your phone to approve a payment, your fingerprint doesn't go anywhere. It doesn't travel to the store. It doesn't land on the bank'

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Biometric Data Meaning: A Face Can Never Be Reset
Sep 16, 2026•Episode 735•News

Biometric Data Meaning: A Face Can Never Be Reset

When your password gets stolen, you change it in about ten seconds. When your face gets stolen, you're stuck with it for the rest of your life. And back in 2015

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Age Verification ID: Malaysia Demands Face Scans by 2026
Sep 16, 2026•Episode 734•News

Age Verification ID: Malaysia Demands Face Scans by 2026

For more than a year, hackers had a live feed of every government I.D. one verification company scanned. Every driver's license. Every passport photo. Streaming

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Age verification software: EU plan guards the download button
Sep 16, 2026•Episode 733•News

Age verification software: EU plan guards the download button

The next time your kid clicks "download" on a new game, a hidden question might pop up first. How old are you, and can you prove it? Under a leaked European pla

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Biometric Data Privacy: Walmart Keeps 512 Face Numbers
Sep 16, 2026•Episode 732•News

Biometric Data Privacy: Walmart Keeps 512 Face Numbers

When you walk into certain Walmart stores, a camera can turn your face into a string of numbers, and then throw away the photo it started from. The picture disa

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What Is Biometric Information: One Clause Decides Who Pays
Sep 15, 2026•Episode 731•News

What Is Biometric Information: One Clause Decides Who Pays

Imagine your company gets sued for millions over how it scanned employees' fingerprints. You did nothing wrong, you followed the law. You call your insurance co

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Deepfake scam losses hit S$242.9M, Singapore adds prefix
Sep 15, 2026•Episode 730•News

Deepfake scam losses hit S$242.9M, Singapore adds prefix

Someone in Singapore lost, on average, more than seventy thousand dollars to a scam last year. The caller looked official. The face on the video call looked lik

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Taylor Swift Deepfake: Sexual Images Pulled in 17 Hours
Sep 15, 2026•Episode 729•News

Taylor Swift Deepfake: Sexual Images Pulled in 17 Hours

One post. Forty-five million views. That's how many people saw a fake sexual image of Taylor Swift before X finally took it down. The images weren't real. T

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Deepfake impersonation: voice scams cost one family $3.9M
Sep 15, 2026•Episode 728•News

Deepfake impersonation: voice scams cost one family $3.9M

A family lost nearly four million dollars. The voice on the phone sounded exactly like someone they trusted. It wasn't a person at all. It was a machine that ha

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Biometric based authentication: a face is just 512 numbers
Sep 15, 2026•Episode 727•News

Biometric based authentication: a face is just 512 numbers

When a facial recognition system looks at your face, it doesn't actually keep your face. It keeps five hundred and twelve numbers. That's it. Your entire face,

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Identity Fraud: 170M Leaked IDs Can't Be Reset Like Passwords
Sep 14, 2026•Episode 726•News

Identity Fraud: 170M Leaked IDs Can't Be Reset Like Passwords

When you change a leaked password, the old one dies in seconds. But when a copy of your driver's license leaks onto the dark web, that photo never expires. It c

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