Your Face Is Just 128 Numbers — And a Seal Just Proved It

Your Face Is Legal to Steal in 29 States

In twenty-nine states right now, there's no law stopping a company from scraping your face off the internet and selling it. Not a stranger taking your photo. A business building a profile from photos you already posted. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-face-is-legal-to-steal-in-29-states

200,000 Strangers Just Got Caught Trading Fake Nudes of Real Women. One Was Probably Someone You Know.

A photo you posted on vacation. A headshot from your company's website. Someone took an ordinary picture of a real woman, fed it into an app, and within seconds had a fake nude that looked completely real. Two websites bu Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/200-000-strangers-just-got-caught-trading-fake-nudes-of-real-women-one-was-proba

Your Face Is Just 128 Numbers — And a Seal Just Proved It

A team of researchers pointed facial recognition software at four hundred and eight harbor seals. And it worked — eighty-eight percent of the time, it could tell one seal from another. But here's the Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-face-is-just-128-numbers-and-a-seal-just-proved-it

The Most Real Face You'll See Today Was Never Born

According to researchers at the World Economic Forum, the most realistic human face you'll see today might belong to someone who doesn't exist. In their study, people looked at A.I.-generated faces and genuine photos of r Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/the-most-real-face-youll-see-today-was-never-born

Your Face Got Mapped by Apple. 6 Million People Are Suing.

A federal judge in Illinois just ruled that more than six million people can sue Apple. Their claim? That the photos app on their phone mapped their faces without ever asking permission. Six million f Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-face-got-mapped-by-apple-6-million-people-are-suing