Digital Government
DHS Needs Someone to Explain Biometrics to the Public
The department wants a communications professional to manage rhetoric about collecting fingerprints, iris scans and facial images.
Digital Government
State Department Wants to Build A Biometric System for Mexico
The department is currently in the market research stage.
Cybersecurity
New immigration order pushes biometrics but lacks deadline
President Trump's revised executive order on immigration calls for an expedited biometric entry/exit system, but it doesn't set a deadline for bringing the system online.
Digital Government
Watchdog: DHS' Biometric Exit Tracking Still Needs Work
DHS’ previous overstay reports, including the one from fiscal 2015, have been incomplete because of “unreliable collection of departure data."
Cybersecurity
Too soon to tell if CBP biometric systems can scale
DHS efforts to develop entry/exit systems that capture travelers’ biometric data are making progress, a GAO report finds, but full implementation is far from simple.
Digital Government
Soon, You Will Never Lose Your Boarding Pass Because it Will Be Your Face
Airports around the world are rolling out facial-recognition technology.
Digital Government
Biometric Checkpoints in Trump’s America
Technological advances mean border screening could be more expansive than ever, if the government can get past the hurdles to implementing such a system.
Cybersecurity
DHS explores the details of 'extreme vetting'
Social media could play a large role in the Department of Homeland Security's development of new, stricter methods of vetting immigrants from terror trouble spots, according to the new DHS chief.
Emerging Tech
IARPA Wants Autonomous Fingerprint Tech
The intelligence research arm is offering up cash for cutting-edge ideas on capturing complete fingerprints.
Cybersecurity
Can DHS push harder on biometrics?
President Trump's controversial immigration order calls for an expedited approach to biometric entry/exit system, but significant issues still dog its implementation.
Cybersecurity
Border wall not a high-rise, warns former CBP head
The president's proposed wall on the Mexican border will require close consultation with on-the-ground border agents to make sure what is put up doesn't go down like a previous effort did, former Customs and Border Protection Commissioner says.
Cybersecurity
Fingerprint tech steps up
IARPA looks to spur the development of new fingerprint-reading technologies.
Cybersecurity
EU needs more nudging on travel data, says DHS chief
The incoming administration will have to continue prodding the EU to share more traveler passenger information with DHS, according to the agency's outgoing secretary.
Modernization
New 'Camouflage' Promises to Make You Unrecognizable to Facial-Recognition Tech
It exploits the way face-recognition algorithms work in order to fool them.
Cybersecurity
Gen. John Kelly picked to head DHS under Trump
The president-elect has selected another retired Marine general for his cabinet -- John F. Kelly to head the Department of Homeland Security.
Emerging Tech
DHS Wants New Facial Recognition Cameras in Airports
Customs and Border Protection is ramping up plans for biometrics data collection.
Digital Government
Electronic Privacy Group Sues FBI Over Biometrics Information
The advocacy group argues the FBI is removing privacy safeguards on a massive biometrics database.
Cybersecurity
Halvorsen: Push to ditch CAC cards is moving apace
DOD CIO says a range of U.S. allies have agreed to pursue a "single identity standard," and that Common Access Cards will not be that solution.
Digital Government
All it Takes to Steal Your Face Is a Special Pair of Glasses
Your face is quickly becoming a key to the digital world.
Emerging Tech