Scammers now have a story that sounds like the news.
Picture a bank customer in Dubai. A text says her biometric login needs a reset. Tap this link, it says, and scan your face.
Scammers now have a story that sounds like the news.
According to Sumsub, the U.A.E. Central Bank told banks to stop texting six-digit codes. Customers now approve payments with a face or fingerprint in the bank's app. That's a safer lock. But a 2024 Microsoft study found over four in ten hijacked accounts already had extra locks. Scammers tricked the owners into unlocking them. Fraud teams should watch backup reset paths.
A stolen code dies in minutes. Your face is yours for life.
Your bank wants proof it's you. Florida may want proof of your age.
A girl sits at the kitchen table, typing to a chatbot at midnight. Florida's attorney general, James Uthmeier, wants that app to check her age. His proposal, the Safe Screens Act, pushes Florida age verification past social media. Chatbots couldn't act like a friend to kids, or claim to be human.
To check one child, a phone might check everyone.
According to Tech Times, the proposal could require age checks inside the phone itself. That means every user proves their age. Your seventy-year-old dad. You. It's still a proposal, not law. Lawyers will fight over who runs the check.
So ask what the app keeps. A deleted scan isn't a stored one.
Florida wants your phone to check faces. Your iPhone may already be doing it.
A dad opens the People album on his iPhone. His daughter is there. So is a stranger from her party. The Photos app turned each face into a list of numbers, called a faceprint.
Your photo library is also a face index.
According to PetaPixel, a court let a class action against Apple move forward in Illinois. The suit says that's facial recognition iPhone users never agreed to. Damages could reach thirty-two and a half billion dollars. Nothing's decided. Apple says the sorting stays on your phone and names no one. Lawyers will argue whether those numbers count as a face scan.
Finding your daughter's photos and learning her face? That's one job, not two.
Three stories, one shift. Your face is turning into a key. Banks want it to approve payments. Florida may want it to prove your age. Your phone already filed it away. The new question isn't whether your face gets scanned. It's who asked first.
All three articles, every source, and today's CaraComp podcast deep-dives are in the description. Until then, open your own app before you tap any link. See you tomorrow.
