Digital Government
British Airways To Expand Boarding Gate Biometrics
Biometrics is becoming more common in U.S. airports.
Cybersecurity
Lawmakers lose patience with NBIB over clearance backlog
Senators expressed deep frustration about the government's lack of progress reducing the backlog of 700,000 pending security clearance requests, with some threatening to overhaul the process completely.
Digital Government
How to Turn Off Facebook's Facial Recognition
The social media site has been gaining detailed knowledge of your face.
Emerging Tech
U.S. Customs Wants to Use Your Face As a Boarding Pass
By 2022, the agency plans to use biometrics to identify 97 percent of travelers flying out of the country.
Artificial Intelligence
Nvidia Making Facial Recognition AI for Smart City Surveillance
Do you ever feel like somebody's watching you?
Digital Government
Chinese Police Are Wearing Sunglasses That Can Recognize Faces
The devices have already helped nab seven fugitives.
Cybersecurity
TSA tests facial recognition at LAX
The travel security agency wants to see if a combined facial recognition and e-Passport screening system can speed up document inspection.
Digital Government
Edward Snowden Is Campaigning Against the World’s Largest Biometric ID Program
Aadhaar, India’s 12-digit unique identification number program that has been under fire for its security and privacy systems.
Cybersecurity
DHS pursues cases exploiting biometric data gaps
A federal judge's recent order denaturalizing a naturalizing U.S. citizen shows how efforts to remedy a digital fingerprint gap are working.
Cybersecurity
DISA looks to walk the walk on multi-factor authentication
An individual's walking gait will be the first biometric used to continuously authenticate mobile warfighters.
Emerging Tech
In 9 U.S. Cities, Airport Security Is Now Scanning Your Face
“DHS should not be scanning the faces of Americans as they depart on international flights—but DHS is doing it anyway,” warns a new report that finds facial recognition practices may be violating the law.
Emerging Tech
Facebook Introduces a Facial Recognition Tool
It will let you know when other users upload your face.
Emerging Tech
Everything Apple Will Be Working on in 2018
Will there be any gadgets that inspire a technological revolution?
Emerging Tech
Under-the-Screen Fingerprint Readers Are Coming in 2018
Here's another option when it comes to smartphone biometrics.
Cybersecurity
USCIS looks go big on biometrics
The immigration agency is developing rules to more aggressively use iris, voice and rapid DNA technologies.
Policy
Government Sued Over Tattoo Recognition Technology
The Electronic Frontier Foundation argues that the program curtails First Amendment right to freedom of expression.
Cybersecurity
U.S. biometric exit could be ready inside of four years
Full implementation of technology needed to track visa holders leaving the U.S. could be ready at airports across the U.S. in the next four years, but cooperation from airlines is key.
Artificial Intelligence
How One Law Enforcement Agency Is Using Facial Recognition to Identify Suspects
In Oregon, the Washington County Sheriff’s Department can review 300,000 mugshots in seconds and is helping other agencies to query their databases as well.
Digital Government
What Do China’s Police Collect on Citizens in Order to Predict Crime? Everything
These databases can scoop up everything from addresses, to medical history, supermarket membership, and delivery records.
Modernization
Can iPhone's Face ID Be Fooled By a Mask?
Hackers may have found a way through 3D printing.
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