Seeing Isn’t Believing: Deepfakes and Evidence in Insurance

Webinar Overview 

Deepfakes are moving fast from novelty to real-world insurance risk. Manipulated documents, photos,video and voice evidence are already potentially affecting proposals, renewals and claims, challenging how insurers assess risk, validate evidence and make decisions.
In this one-hour webinar, we will examine what deepfakes are, how someone might produce a deepfake, examples of scams involving deepfakes, and some techniques for trying to identify deepfakes.

By the end of the session, you will be able to understand:
• what deepfakes are, their malevolent uses, and techniques for detecting them.
• how to implement a strategy to protect trust and strengthen controls throughout the insurance lifecycle.

Speaker Bios 

Jeff Heasman is an expert in insurance law and behavioural sciences. He advises insurers and brokers internationally on risk assessment, underwriting judgement and behavioural influences on decision-making. He is the author of the entry on insurance against terrorism in the forthcoming Elgar Concise Encyclopaedia of Terrorism Law.   He was the first Dean of the Faculty of Law at Cavendish University in Zambia and lectures globally.

Professor Stuart Macdonald specialises in legal and policy responses to online violent extremism and terrorism, with particular expertise in criminal law, human rights, and propaganda dissemination. His work examines how legal frameworks intersect with digital platforms and emerging threat environments, including research ethics and data protection. He is Professor at Swansea University, Senior Fellow at Hedayah, and Associate Fellow at ICCT. He serves on the ECTC Advisory Network Steering Committee on Terrorism and Propaganda.