CaraComp
Log inGet Started
The CaraComp Insider

Intelligence for the Modern Investigator

Daily 10-minute episodes breaking down AI facial recognition, biometric technology trends, and investigative workflows. No fluff, just the math and the methods.

Apple PodcastsSpotifyYouTube

Recent Episodes

821 episodes
Age Verification: Apple Backs EU Plan It Fought in Texas
Oct 9, 2026•Episode 821•News

Age Verification: Apple Backs EU Plan It Fought in Texas

Apple once warned Texas lawmakers that checking ages at the app store would mean collecting sensitive personal information from every single Texan. Now Apple's

Listen Now
Age Verification ID: Dutch MPs Back Checks, Storage Unclear
Oct 9, 2026•Episode 820•News

Age Verification ID: Dutch MPs Back Checks, Storage Unclear

According to Dutch reporting, a man posted a sixteen-year-old girl's details online in two thousand nineteen. This happened in Valkenburg, a small town in the s

Listen Now
New York Missing Children: Face Matching Helps Find 37 Kids
Oct 8, 2026•Episode 819•News

New York Missing Children: Face Matching Helps Find 37 Kids

PIX11 reports that a single police operation in the New York area recovered thirty-seven missing children and teenagers. It took three days. And investigators s

Listen Now
Apple Age Verification: One Check Ends a Dozen ID Uploads
Oct 8, 2026•Episode 818•News

Apple Age Verification: One Check Ends a Dozen ID Uploads

More than seventy thousand people took a photo of their government I.D. and uploaded it just to prove their age on Discord. Then the outside company checking t

Listen Now
Facial Recognition: False Match Jails Grandma for 4 Months
Oct 7, 2026•Episode 817•News

Facial Recognition: False Match Jails Grandma for 4 Months

Angela Lipps was babysitting her neighbors' kids when police arrived with guns drawn. It was July of twenty twenty-five, in Tennessee. The reason for the arrest

Listen Now
Pennsylvania age verification law: Every Adult Must Show ID
Oct 7, 2026•Episode 816•News

Pennsylvania age verification law: Every Adult Must Show ID

To prove you're an adult online in Pennsylvania, a website might soon check your mortgage records. Not just your driver's license. Your mortgage. Your scho

Listen Now
AI Generated Deepfake: Fake Ronaldo Fails One Spanish Test
Oct 6, 2026•Episode 815•News

AI Generated Deepfake: Fake Ronaldo Fails One Spanish Test

A seventy-year-old man in Venezuela got a video call from Cristiano Ronaldo. The soccer star was smiling, talking, telling him he'd won a prize. Then the man as

Listen Now
PlayStation Age Verification: Skip It, Kids Lose Voice Chat
Oct 6, 2026•Episode 814•News

PlayStation Age Verification: Skip It, Kids Lose Voice Chat

A kid on PlayStation will soon be able to play every game they own. But they won't be able to say a single word to a friend. Not until someone proves how old th

Listen Now
Facials Fargo: Wrong Facial Match Jails Grandma 108 Days
Oct 5, 2026•Episode 813•News

Facials Fargo: Wrong Facial Match Jails Grandma 108 Days

Angela Lipps was babysitting four young children at home in Tennessee when U.S. Marshals arrived with their guns drawn. They arrested her for bank theft in Farg

Listen Now
Deepfake Impersonation: Cloned Voice Drains €95M From Bank
Oct 4, 2026•Episode 812•News

Deepfake Impersonation: Cloned Voice Drains €95M From Bank

Police in Milan say someone at an Italian private bank got WhatsApp messages that appeared to come from the company's chief executive. Then came a phone call f

Listen Now
Deepfake Video Detection: Fake Doctors Fool 3 in 4 People
Oct 4, 2026•Episode 811•News

Deepfake Video Detection: Fake Doctors Fool 3 in 4 People

Dr. Maurice Sholas helps kids recover from serious injuries and illness. One day, he found himself in a video he never made. His face, his voice, his calm docto

Listen Now
PlayStation Age Verification: Chat Now Costs a Face Scan
Oct 4, 2026•Episode 810•News

PlayStation Age Verification: Chat Now Costs a Face Scan

Later this year, if you want to type a quick "good game" to a friend on PlayStation, you may have to show the console your face first. Sony is putting messages

Listen Now
Deepfake: One Selfie Becomes a Nude, and Sites Get 48 Hours
Oct 3, 2026•Episode 809•News

Deepfake: One Selfie Becomes a Nude, and Sites Get 48 Hours

Researchers say one chatbot on X was turning out sexualized fake images at a pace of up to two hundred a minute. Real women's photos. Altered without their perm

Listen Now
Age Verification Florida: Adults May Owe ChatGPT a Selfie
Oct 3, 2026•Episode 808•News

Age Verification Florida: Adults May Owe ChatGPT a Selfie

Florida wants a court to make ChatGPT check how old you are. Not just kids. Everyone. And the most likely way to prove your age? A picture of your face, or y

Listen Now
Age Verification for Online Safety Act: Boy, 12, Scans as 15
Oct 2, 2026•Episode 807•News

Age Verification for Online Safety Act: Boy, 12, Scans as 15

A twelve-year-old boy picked up an eyebrow pencil. He drew a moustache on his upper lip. Then he looked into a camera built to keep kids out. The system <phonem

Listen Now
Age Verification Law States: 29 Ask Adults for ID or Selfie
Oct 2, 2026•Episode 806•News

Age Verification Law States: 29 Ask Adults for ID or Selfie

Seventy thousand people uploaded a picture of their government I.D. just to prove they were old enough to use a chat app. Then those pictures got out. According

Listen Now
Age verification: Pakistan Says No Law Makes Apps Check Kids
Oct 2, 2026•Episode 805•News

Age verification: Pakistan Says No Law Makes Apps Check Kids

Pakistan's internet regulator stood in front of a high court and admitted something most parents would never guess. No law in the country requires a social medi

Listen Now
Where to Get a Passport Photo: 3 Questions Before the Flash
Sep 30, 2026•Episode 804•News

Where to Get a Passport Photo: 3 Questions Before the Flash

Your passport photo takes about thirty seconds at the pharmacy counter. But that little square of your face can end up in a government collection that police ca

Listen Now
Report Identity Theft: Wrong First Stop Jailed Man 428 Days
Sep 29, 2026•Episode 803•News

Report Identity Theft: Wrong First Stop Jailed Man 428 Days

In 2019, a homeless man in Los Angeles walked into a bank to report that someone was using his name. He had his real I.D. and his real Social Security card in h

Listen Now
Facial Recognition: Florida Dad Jailed for Stranger's Crime
Sep 28, 2026•Episode 802•News

Facial Recognition: Florida Dad Jailed for Stranger's Crime

Robert Dillon had a full beard and a thick mustache. The man police were looking for was clean-shaven. A computer matched them anyway, and Dillon, a Florida dad

Listen Now
TikTok Age Verification: Alabama Proves a Form Isn't a Fence
Sep 28, 2026•Episode 801•News

TikTok Age Verification: Alabama Proves a Form Isn't a Fence

Picture a brand-new TikTok account. Researchers told it the user was thirteen years old. Then they watched what the app served up. That young account ran into h

Listen Now
Proof of Identity: 3 Tiers That Decide Who Gets Turned Away
Sep 28, 2026•Episode 800•News

Proof of Identity: 3 Tiers That Decide Who Gets Turned Away

A notarized copy of your birth certificate can get you turned away at the D.M.V. Stamped, signed, perfectly official-looking. Rejected. And the logic behind tha

Listen Now
Facial St. Louis: One Number Jailed Wrong Man 17 Months
Sep 27, 2026•Episode 799•News

Facial St. Louis: One Number Jailed Wrong Man 17 Months

Christopher Gatlin spent about seventeen months behind bars. The thing that first pointed police to him? A computer's guess, built from a blurry frame of survei

Listen Now
Biometric Access: Bangladesh's $748M ID Has No Clear Backup
Sep 27, 2026•Episode 798•News

Biometric Access: Bangladesh's $748M ID Has No Clear Backup

In South Korea, one fire in one government data center knocked more than six hundred public systems offline. By late September, officials had brought back only

Listen Now
How to Reset Face ID: Turning It Off Leaves the Face Map
Sep 27, 2026•Episode 797•News

How to Reset Face ID: Turning It Off Leaves the Face Map

When you switch off Face ID on your iPhone, your face doesn't go anywhere. A mathematical map of it stays sealed inside the phone. Many people who've turned it

Listen Now
123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233Next →