FBI Says More People Using ‘Deepfake’ Technology to Apply for Jobs

FBI Says More People Using ‘Deepfake’ Technology to Apply for Jobs
A man using a computer in Dongguan, China's southern Guangdong Province, on Aug. 4, 2020. Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images
Nicholas Dolinger
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The FBI has published a new statement warning about the increasingly prevalent use of “deepfake” technology in job interviews, allowing users to assume the identity of someone else over digital video interviews in order to gain access to sensitive data.

On June 28, the FBI released a public service announcement about the growing problem, in which one individual superimposes the face of another onto themselves during a live job interview for remote tech work. In so doing, the individual may hope to gain access to sensitive, valuable information with a fraudulent identity,