Age Verification's Dirty Secret: The Tech Works. The System Doesn't.

Why 9 Crore Farmers Can't Get Their ₹2,000 — And What It Reveals About Identity Tech

About ninety million farmers in India did everything right. They registered for a government cash program. They linked their bank accounts. And then their two-thousand-rupee paym Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/why-9-crore-farmers-cant-get-their-2-000-and-what-it-reveals-about-identity-tech

Age Verification's Dirty Secret: The Tech Works. The System Doesn't.

Within three days of the U.K.'s Online Safety Act taking effect, V.P.N. sign-ups jumped eighteen hundred percent. Not eighteen percent. Eighteen hundred Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/age-verifications-dirty-secret-the-tech-works-the-system-doesnt

34 of 156 Passengers Made the Flight. Europe's Biometric Border Just Exposed Itself.

Only thirty-four out of a hundred and fifty-six passengers made their flight. The rest were stuck in a biometric screening queue at Milan's airport that stretched past two hours. One plane left for M Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/34-of-156-passengers-made-the-flight-europes-biometric-border-just-exposed-itsel

Identity Verification Just Became Infrastructure — And Your Evidence Better Survive It

A facial recognition match used to be enough to move a case forward. Now, in courtrooms across the U.K. and the U.S., judges aren't asking whether the match was right. They're asking whether you can Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/identity-verification-just-became-infrastructure-and-your-evidence-better-surviv

99% Accurate? Your Surveillance Photo Just Cost That Algorithm 40 Points

A facial recognition algorithm scores ninety-nine percent on its benchmark test. Then you feed it a real surveillance photo — grainy, off-angle, pulled from a compressed video frame — and that score plummets by thirty to Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/99-accurate-your-surveillance-photo-just-cost-that-algorithm-40-points