Digital Government
State Department Wants to Build A Biometric System for Mexico
The department is currently in the market research stage.
Digital Government
VA Experiments with Real-Time Dashboard of Vets' Feedback
The agency wants feedback whenever and however veterans want to send it.
Modernization
FEC and 18F Team Up to Save Agency $1.2M
The commission's new website, hosted by Cloud.gov, will reduce spend on internal systems.
Cybersecurity
Encryption Won’t Stop Your Internet Provider From Spying on You
Data patterns alone can be enough to give away what video you’re watching on YouTube.
Ideas
4 Security Trends for the New Administration To Consider
The challenge is to balance what’s practical with what’s effective, all in the face of global threats evolving every day.
Cybersecurity
Who Owns Your Face?
Advertising companies, tech giants, data collectors, and the federal government, it turns out.
Digital Government
How Transparent Is Too Transparent, Oversight Committee Asks
Federal spending data, White House visitor logs and presidential tax returns were all the subject of a Congressional discussion on government openness.
Artificial Intelligence
Google’s DeepMind Has a Plan for Protecting Private Health Data—From Itself
It's next problem is how to assure hospitals, and the public at large, that patient confidentiality isn’t compromised.
Digital Government
The Most Striking Thing About the WikiLeaks CIA Data Dump Is How Little Most People Cared
There’s one other big difference between now and 2013.
Digital Government
The Government’s Secret Wiki for Intelligence
Analysts reportedly tucked classified information about Russian hacking inside Intellipedia for safekeeping.
Modernization
Amazon Broke the Internet Because Its System Couldn’t Handle a Typo
Amazon has already modified its S3 system to avoid this problem again in the future.
Digital Government
Software Engineers Figured Out How to Turn Charts Into Music for the Blind
There is a vexing gap between data’s possibilities and its accessibility.
Emerging Tech
Nextgov Event: Dig into Data Science
We'll chat with three data scientists at our first Innovation After Hours event of 2017
Emerging Tech
A Doozy of a Lawsuit Over Self-Driving Cars
Waymo is suing Uber, and says a former employee stole nearly 10 gigabytes of secret files.
Digital Government
How Trump’s Immigrant Dragnet Might Catch Your Personal Data, Too
A DHS rule change aimed at undocumented immigrants could invade the personal privacy of far more people than the ones they’re targeting.
Modernization
Video: These Apps Will Help You Find a Parking Spot
Avoid circling around the block for 20 minutes.
Artificial Intelligence
Want to Chat with Shakespeare? AI Bots Will Soon Allow Us to Talk to the Dead
New chatbot programs are being developed to keep our knowledge active after our physical being passes away.
Digital Government