Cops Lost His Kids Over an 85% Guess — Your Face Could Be Next

Cops Lost His Kids Over an 85% Guess — Your Face Could Be Next

A man lost custody of his two kids. He lost his job. He lost his home. And he spent two months locked up — all because a computer said his face was an eighty-five percent match to someone in a surveillance video. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/cops-lost-his-kids-over-an-85-guess-your-face-could-be-next

You Verified Your Kid's Age. A Stranger Now Has Your Face.

You went to set up a game console for your kid. You typed in a birthday. Maybe you held up a driver's license to a camera. And in that moment, a company you've never heard of took a copy of your face — and kept it. If y Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/you-verified-your-kids-age-a-stranger-now-has-your-face

Your Face, Their Database: The Body-Cam Question Nobody's Asking

Picture this. You're walking down a street in Dublin. You haven't done anything wrong. A police officer walks past, body camera running. Your face is now recorded. And under a new bill, that footage of you — an innocent p Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-face-their-database-the-body-cam-question-nobodys-asking

"Verified" Doesn't Mean What You Think — It's 3 Checks, and Apps Skip One

When an app flashes those two little words — "Identity Verified" — you think one thing happened. Three things actually did. And here's what'll keep you up tonight: a lot of apps quietly skip one of th Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/verified-doesnt-mean-what-you-think-its-3-checks-and-apps-skip-one

Your Face, Their Algorithm: Why a 1-in-a-Million ID Check Fails 100x More Often on Some People

Imagine two people standing side by side. They hand the exact same facial recognition system the exact same kind of photo. For one of them, the system is wrong about a hundred times more often than for the other. And the Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-face-their-algorithm-why-a-1-in-a-million-id-check-fails-100x-more-often-on