Deepfake Detectives: Stop Watching the Video

Deepfakes Just Broke Evidence: $893M Gone, 100K Fake Images, First Arrests Land

According to the F.B.I., A.I.-powered scams drained nearly nine hundred million dollars from victims last year. In one federal case, a single defendant stockpiled over a hundred thousand fabricated explicit images — targ Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/deepfakes-just-broke-evidence-893m-gone-100k-fake-images-first-arrests-land

Disneyland's $5M Face-Scan Suit Just Rewrote the Biometrics Rulebook

A five-million-dollar class-action lawsuit says Disneyland scanned the faces of about seventy-five thousand visitors a day — and most of them had no idea it was happening. The only notice? A small sign with a crossed-out Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/disneylands-5m-face-scan-suit-just-rewrote-the-biometrics-rulebook

Deepfake Detectives: Stop Watching the Video

The first real dataset of political deepfakes from a U.S. presidential election didn't arrive until after the votes were already counted. That means during the entire twenty-twenty-four race, investigators had no benchma Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/deepfake-detectives-stop-watching-the-video

Deepfakes Hit 38 Countries. Newsrooms Still Don't Have a Workflow.

A deepfake video of Indian political commentator Dhruv Rathee spread to more than thirty-one thousand viewers in West Bengal before anyone debunked it. A detection tool flagged the audio as A.I.-generated with over ninet Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/deepfakes-hit-38-countries-newsrooms-still-dont-have-a-workflow

Sweden Just Legalized Live Facial Recognition. One Loophole Could Unravel It All.

Sweden's parliament just voted to let police run live facial recognition on crowds in real time. The law takes effect July 2026. And buried inside it is a Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/sweden-just-legalized-live-facial-recognition-one-loophole-could-unravel-it-all