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Attention, Feds: Your Slack Messages are Subject to FOIA
If you work for a government agency, your taco emoji are federal records.
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An Unprecedented Threat to Privacy
A private company has captured 2.2 billion photos of license plates in cities throughout America. It stores them in a database, tagged with the location where they were taken. And it is selling that data.
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How USDA crowdsourced agricultural data
Armed with $63,000 and Microsoft’s cloud platform, USDA rustled up a new crop of agricultural data dashboards to help secure a sustainable food supply.
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Video: This Vending Machine Is Watching You
It knows who you are and what candy you crave.
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DHS Wants Better Social Media Screening Technology
In a new request for information, DHS said it is looking for open source “privacy, civil rights and civil liberties-protecting analytic methods."
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With Lockheed Deal, Leidos Now the Government’s Largest IT Provider
As part of the deal, Lockheed Martin will receive $1.8 billion in cash from Leidos and will own a majority – 50.5 percent – equity stake in the company worth $3.2 billion.
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Obama Administration’s Encryption Views Are All Over the Map
Some government officials are focused on catching criminals, while others worry about empowering hackers.
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Floppy Disks and Windows XP: Nuclear Weapons Technology Is Hilariously Out of Date
The majority of the systems in the Wyoming U.S. Air Force launch control center date back to the 1960s and 1970s.
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Citizens losing satisfaction with feds, but web services fare OK
Online tools helped buoy sinking satisfaction levels as 2015 saw federal customers growing less and less pleased with what Uncle Sam had to offer.
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Why the State Department is adopting responsive design
State officials are redesigning and consolidating the websites for its foreign missions to streamline content management and better accommodate mobile users.
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Satisfaction with Federal Government Drops Yet Again
The Treasury Department had the lowest customer satisfaction score in the federal government, largely because of the IRS.
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The Strange Rituals of Silicon Valley Intern Recruiting
At the University of California, Berkeley, the on-campus presentation means free t-shirts, free food and lots of stories about meditation and disco balls.
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Here’s How the Pentagon Plans to Protect Security Clearance Data
The new IT systems storing background investigation forms on millions of federal employees and contractors will use end-to-end encryption.
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Report: OMB Cuts Contracts for Mobile Devices
The new policy could force agencies to consolidate their contracts over the next few years.
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Should Intelligence Whistleblowers Be Protected?
Employees seeking to report wrongdoing are safeguarded across all federal agencies—but the process for doing so in the classified intelligence community can be dangerous.
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Wanted: agile robots
NIST is looking for new agility in robotic design, including smart manufacturing techniques and component interoperability.
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New contracting rule targets confidentiality agreements
A proposed change to the Federal Acquisition Regulation would eliminate confidentialy agreements that could potentially stifle whistleblowers.
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Why the $300 million software project needs to go extinct
Private-sector innovation could send massive, failure-prone projects the way of the dinosaur if federal agencies are willing and able to seize the opportunity, says one leading CIO.
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Facebook Is Giving Users a New Way to Access it on the 'Dark Web'
Facebook’s Tor site is one way for people to access their accounts when the regular Facebook site is blocked by governments.
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