Half the time I call a company they say “we are recording your voice for security / authentication purposes”.

The companies that do that have all the information on me that they require for me to set up an account, so their data breaches will be just like this one, but 1000x larger.

Can we just fast forward through the part where this works for ID theft, past the firefox age verification plugin that uses these datasets, and even through the part where people in the plugin dataset are digital outcasts (this voice has been used too many times. Want to try another?)

At the end of this dark predictable tunnel, maybe there will be a ban on biometrics for important stuff, a repeal of the age verification laws, and actual privacy legislation with teeth.

The scarier piece is that an attacker pulls a contractor from the dump, finds their employer on linkedin, then calls that companys IT helpdesk for a password reset with the cloned voice.

Fwiw we put up a free realtime face swap demo a while back at https://www.callstrike.ai/deepfake-security-training .. worth a look if you want to actually feel how trivial this has gotten.

I've had to open a bank account for a company here a few years ago and that was right on the bubble of this happening and they still had an option to come by in person with the proper documentation, which I did, now it is all outsourced.

These companies are the fattest targets and they're run by incompetents. You should assume that anything you give them will eventually be part of some hack.