Walked Past a Police Camera? Your Face May Live in a Database Forever

One Stolen Badge Shouldn't Unlock Your Whole Office. Here's What Should Stop It.

Picture this. Someone walks up to your office door with a stolen badge. They scan it. The light turns green. And just like that — they're inside, free to walk into any room they want. According to security researchers, mo Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/one-stolen-badge-shouldnt-unlock-your-whole-office-heres-what-should-stop-it

Your Newborn's Footprint Isn't Ink Anymore — It's a Permanent Digital ID 1.5 Million Babies Already Have

That ink footprint on your baby's birth certificate? For more than a million and a half American newborns, it's not ink anymore. It's a digital biometric file — a scan of those tiny feet, stored in a Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-newborns-footprint-isnt-ink-anymore-its-a-permanent-digital-id-1-5-million-

Your Thumbprint Just Became Your Time Card. You Can't Reset a Thumb.

In a county office in southeast Missouri, fifty-five workers now clock in with their thumbprint. The county spent a little under twelve thousand dollars to make the switch. And before the vote that pu Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-thumbprint-just-became-your-time-card-you-cant-reset-a-thumb

One Photo of Your Kid Is All a Classmate Needs Now

A girl in a Louisiana middle school got expelled. Not the boy accused of making fake nude images of her. Her. She was thrown out for fighting back. If you ha Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/one-photo-of-your-kid-is-all-a-classmate-needs-now

Walked Past a Police Camera? Your Face May Live in a Database Forever

Nearly one in two American adults already has their face stored in a facial recognition database. That's according to the Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown Law. And almost none of those p Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/walked-past-a-police-camera-your-face-may-live-in-a-database-forever