Emerging Tech
Senate Dems Call on ICE to Halt Facial Recognition and Buying from Data Brokers
Sens. Ed Markey and Ron Wyden are also pressing the immigration enforcement agency to detail their use of surveillance technologies.
Policy
Senate Dems call on ICE to halt facial recognition and buying from data brokers
Sens. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) are also pressing the immigration enforcement agency to detail their use of surveillance technologies.
Policy
Senate bill looks to software licensing for cost savings
A follow-on to the Megabyte Act of 2016 would give agencies new requirements for enterprise software licensing.
Digital Government
FTC Debates Whether Data Privacy Concerns Warrant Market Wide Rules
A Thursday hearing on the matter featured both industry and consumer advocate perspectives on the best regulatory approach.
Policy
Commerce Revises Export Rules to Boost US Standards Development on Critical Tech
The original rule—which banned certain entities from receiving U.S. exports—endangered U.S. participation in international standards bodies where such entities are present, opponents said.
Policy
White House Team Unveils New Recommendations for U.S. Semiconductor Industry Growth
The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology introduced new advice to help successfully implement the CHIPS Act and develop an advanced U.S. semiconductor market.
Policy
Recent Grads Often Don’t Consider Federal Employment, Survey Says
Many federal agencies continue to face critical workforce gaps in areas like cybersecurity, IT and automation.
Policy
Federally Funded Research to be Free and Publicly Accessible Under New White House Guidance
A memo issued by the acting director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy requests federal agencies update and implement their public access policies by the end of 2025.
Policy
House Oversight Dems seek data from social media companies about threats to law enforcement
Lawmakers are demanding information from online platforms about how they are responding to growing threats against law enforcement officials following the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago.
Ideas
Government Electric Vehicle Efforts Requires New Charging Infrastructure
Plans are being made for a national electric vehicle charging infrastructure, but for now, state and local governments are moving forward on their own.
Policy
Oversight chair Maloney loses primary
Maloney's defeat sets up a race to see who will be the next top Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
Cybersecurity
Government IT Networks May Not be Ready for Office Return, Survey Says
Legacy government IT systems and network infrastructure may struggle to provide the same quality as more workers return to the office.
Policy
New semiconductor law aims to create ‘Silicon Valleys’ across U.S.
$10 billion in funding will go to support 20 research hubs with a third of them set to be in small or rural communities.
Policy
What does the federal government buy from data brokers?
The chairmen of two House committees want federal agencies to explain what they are doing with "billions of data points on hundreds of millions of Americans" acquired from data brokers.
Policy
DOD Officials ‘Must Address’ Fake Accounts Under New Social Media Guidance
The Department of Defense released its first departmentwide policy for official accounts and the personnel running them.
Policy
Lawmakers push IRS on backlog and customer service problems
The agency says it's aiming to get to a "healthy" backlog level by the end of the year, but in June, the National Taxpayer Advocate said that would be "difficult" for the agency to do.
Policy
‘Highly Classified’ Documents Recovered from Mar-a-Lago Prompt Lawmaker Calls for Assessment
The House lawmakers requested a briefing for a review and damage assessment.
Policy
Survey: Performance, Pressure Have Increased Among Remote Government Employees During COVID
The survey also revealed managers seem to trust employees to perform more in virtual environments.
Policy
FEC Approves Google’s Plan to Exempt Campaign Emails From Spam Filters
The pilot program stems in part from a March study that found Google filters were far more likely to mark right-wing campaign emails as spam than left-wing ones.
Policy