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Cybersecurity

NIST releases latest draft of digital identity guidelines

Draft digital identity guidelines add more detail around emerging tech like mobile driver's licenses, but also keeps the door open to in-person verification.

Commentary

Login.gov set to embrace facial recognition technology – How GSA and users can mitigate risks

Artificial Intelligence

NIST highlights importance of good data, testing in AI development

IT Modernization

VA plans facial recognition pilot for health care employees to reduce log-in burden

Federal Newscast

Senators want to scrap TSA's use of facial recognition

Agency Oversight

GSA to partner with vendor to bring ‘best-in-class’ facial recognition option to Login.gov

Commentary

The future of ethical investigations

As part of CBP’s one-to-one biometric facial recognition testing on inbound, international flights, a traveler has his photo taken and compared against his passport photo to confirm his identity at Dulles Airport. Photo by Glenn Fawcett

Automation

DHS scientists see group face-matching as viable use case for ports of entry after tests

FILE- In this Jan. 5, 2019, file photo Transportation Security Administration officers work at a checkpoint at O'Hare airport in Chicago. The percentage of TSA airport screeners missing work has hit 10 percent as the partial government shutdown stretches into its fifth week. The Transportation Security Administration said Monday, Jan. 21, that Sunday’s absence rate compared to 3.1 percent on the comparable Sunday a year ago. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

Federal Newscast

Pentagon releases report on quality of life for military families

International passengers arrive at Miami international Airport where they are screened by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) using facial biometrics to automate manual document checks required for admission into the U.S. Friday, Nov. 20, 2020, in Miami. Miami International Airport is the latest airport to provide Simplified Arrival airport-wide. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Technology

CBP, TSA expanding facial recognition for traveler identity verification

As part of CBP’s one-to-one biometric facial recognition testing on inbound, international flights, a traveler has his photo taken and compared against his passport photo to confirm his identity at Dulles Airport. Photo by Glenn Fawcett

Technology

Customs and Border Protection expands use of facial recognition

Members of the Maine National Guard arrive for orientation an empty wing at Central Maine Medical Center, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021, in Lewiston, Maine. The Guard will work as nursing assistants, helping to open a swing bed unit of the hospital that has been closed due to a nursing shortage. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Federal Newscast

National Guard members can unionize if and when they're called up by governors

FILE - In this Oct. 7, 2020, file photo, a video surveillance camera is installed on the ceiling above a subway platform in the Court Street station in the Brooklyn borough of New York. State lawmakers across the U.S. are reconsidering the tradeoffs of facial recognition technology amid civil rights and racial bias concerns. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Federal Newscast

Biden administration trying to find happy medium when it comes to facial recognition

FILE - In this March 22, 2013 file photo, the exterior of the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington. As millions of Americans file their income tax returns, their chances of getting audited by the IRS have rarely been so low. The number of people audited by the IRS last year dropped for the sixth straight year, to just over 1 million. The last time so few people were audited was 2004, when the population was significantly smaller. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Agency Oversight

IRS ‘struck a nerve’ with facial recognition, but pieces missing in fight against fraud

FILE - In this March 9, 2021, file photo, Army health specialists fill syringes with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in Miami. Despite the clamor to speed up the U.S. vaccination drive against COVID-19, the first three months of the rollout suggest faster is not necessarily better. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier, File)

Federal Newscast

New IG report shows Air Force, Army had issues rolling out vaccine overseas

IRS building

IT Modernization

IRS walks away from facial recognition to access online tools after backlash

Hands of businessman or designer typing on l aptop

Cybersecurity

Why maybe, just maybe, the era of the password is finally sunsetting

As part of CBP’s one-to-one biometric facial recognition testing on inbound, international flights, a traveler has his photo taken and compared against his passport photo to confirm his identity at Dulles Airport. Photo by Glenn Fawcett

Technology

CBP building on facial recognition successes as travelers reap benefits of expedited process

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Technology

Facial recognition technology gaining speed within federal agencies

In this photo taken Tuesday, May 7, 2019, is a security camera in the Financial District of San Francisco. San Francisco is on track to become the first U.S. city to ban the use of facial recognition by police and other city agencies as the technology creeps increasingly into daily life. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Technology

DoD, DHS vet facial recognition tools for reliability in effort to build trust

Lloyd Austin

Federal Newscast

House proposal would set aside money for defense contractors should another pandemic-like event occur

Artificial Intelligence

Does affective computing have a place in federal law enforcement?

Kevin Walsh, GAO

Agency Oversight

DHS biometric recognition program replacement is 3 years behind schedule