1+ mon, 9+ hour ago   (1566+ words) ICE intends to award LexisNexis Risk Solutions a sole-source contract worth an estimated $6.7 million to continue supplying investigative data services to thousands of agency users and feed commercial identity data into ICE applications, including Palantir. The August 10 notice of intent…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1560+ words) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has built a covert browsing capability that allows investigators to monitor social media, online communities and dark web forums without revealing a government presence, according to a leaked internal inventory and federal procurement records. Managed…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (330+ words) The European Commission has requested public feedback on its plans for a reciprocal biometric data-sharing framework for police with non-EU nations. The public consultation period for the proposed regulation opened on June 12 and runs through August 7, 2026. Under the Prüm international…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (860+ words) The UK government has selected a vendor for facial age estimation. Worth £322,000 ($433,745), the three-year contract begins on June 1, 2026 and runs for three years. The contract award notice lists established British IT provider Akhter Computers Limited as the main contractor, with…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (423+ words) Last week London became a city of two tales. Two different surveillance stories show how the UK’s approach to biometric surveillance prefers flexibility over certainty and why, in my view, we need more of the latter. Defending the system, the…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (618+ words) The U.S. and European Union are in formal talks over a biometric data-sharing arrangement that could give the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) access to fingerprint and other biometric records held by EU member states. Brussels has never granted this type…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (439+ words) A British Columbia Appeal Court will not overturn a ruling by the B.C. Supreme Court in support of the province’s privacy commissioner, which found facial recognition provider Clearview AI to be in violation of local privacy law when it scraped images…...

7+ mon, 1+ day ago   (417+ words) New South Wales (NSW) has kicked off a pilot of its new digital identity app on Wednesday, inviting residents of the Australian state over the age of 16 to participate in the testing. Users will be able to create a NSW…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago   (738+ words) Following biometric data sharing agreements between the US, Chile and Ecuador, the Australian government reportedly has also agreed to provide the Trump administration and U.S. agencies such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with direct access to Australians’ biometric information and…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago   (484+ words) Australia’s national digital ID program will undergo a formal audit this year. The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) is set to examine governance, risk management and evaluation of the AU$1 billion-plus scheme (US$674 million). The inquiry comes roughly a year…...