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.
Cybersecurity
A Consumer Product Safety Commission for cyber?
A former Obama administration cybersecurity official wants a single agency to take the lead on generating and enforcing security standards for technology products.
People
Shutdown looming larger amid political fights
The prospect of keeping the government open past the Dec. 8 continuing resolution deadline just got more complicated.
Artificial Intelligence
Facebook is Using AI for Suicide Prevention
The social media company has changed its system for spotting users with potentially suicidal thoughts.
Digital Government
Report: Government Websites Are (Somehow) Getting Worse
Most federal websites fail metrics related to load time and secure connections, according to a think tank assessment.
Cybersecurity
Federal Waste Report Says Government Dropped the Ball on Using Kaspersky Software
The long-delay before agencies were ordered to remove Kaspersky reflects a dangerous inefficiency in government, Sen. James Lankford says.
Ideas
How the New Science of Vulnerability Management Can Help Struggling Federal Networks
IT teams often have the tools to find network vulnerabilities. What they don't have is the manpower to fix them all.
Artificial Intelligence
AI Might Give You a Personal Assistant Instead of Taking Your Job
We’ve arguably never been busier—and more in need of some assistance.
Policy
The Next Trump Legal Crisis: Who Is In Charge at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau?
That’s a problem that will need to be solved by the courts.
Digital Government
Federal website performance continues to lag
Federal websites continue to slip on performance metrics related to page-load speed, mobile friendliness, security and accessibility, an ITIF report finds.
Digital Government
GAO: OMB, federal CIO need to be more involved in high-priority IT projects
An audit found that the Office of Management and Budget has discontinued or de-emphasized regular reporting and oversight on high-priority IT projects and could be passing up billions in cost savings across the federal government.
Digital Government
Lankford cites almost a half-trillion in government waste
A Republican senator's annual government waste report cites IT boondoggles, programs with insufficient oversight and structural impediments to efficient hiring.
Modernization
ICE memo says Chinese-made drones are snoops
An ICE intel memo claims that a Chinese UAS maker is dumping cheap drones on the U.S. market to capture sensitive infrastructure data.
Digital Government
Why is there so much customized software in the federal government?
Former federal CIO Tony Scott explains why agencies must kick their addiction to custom code.
Digital Government
Trump Administration Has Talked Up Social Media Vetting, But It’s Nothing New
Arlington-based deep web search engine provider Giant Oak says agencies have been perusing social media accounts long before Trump took office.
Artificial Intelligence
Russia to the United Nations: Don’t Try to Stop Us From Building Killer Robots
UN efforts to limit or regulate military AI may be failing before they even begin.
Policy
Network Neutrality Can't Fix the Internet
The FCC is poised to dismantle common carriage for broadband and wireless providers. That’s bad, but the internet itself is worse.
Policy
IG Cites Homeland Security for Abusing Its Power, Blocking Negative Report
One audit finds Trump administration violated court orders when enforcing its initial travel ban.
Ideas
Russia Used Social Media to Weaponize American Free Will. Here’s What to Do About It.
The tech, policy and national security communities need to come together to stop disinformation campaigns.
Ideas