1+ week, 5+ day ago   (789+ words) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is moving to maintain two complementary technologies capable of reconstructing where vehicles have been and following where they go. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) announced that it intends to renew its existing Berla iVe vehicle forensics…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (1030+ words) U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is preparing to spend more than $100 million on a new biometrics and identity technology project that will support machine learning, entity resolution and cloud-based applications used across the immigration system. The project, Immigration Biometrics and…...

1+ mon, 8+ 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, 1+ week ago   (918+ words) LEO Technologies has launched a pair of AI products that expand correctional surveillance beyond the content of incarcerated people’s communications, allowing agencies to identify speakers through voice biometrics and continuously analyze camera feeds for movements, relationships, and behavior the company…...

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, 1+ week ago   (1214+ words) The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) canceled a contract for commercial cellphone location surveillance software after a bipartisan congressional inquiry revealed that the agency had run hundreds of warrantless searches through a system built on data from…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (943+ words) Its central argument is not about a single biometric system, but the linking of face images, fingerprints, iris scans, and DNA with wider government and commercial data networks used to identify, profile, and target people. The report’s larger argument is…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (871+ words) A new appeal from the head of the Metropolitan Police aims to lay out the benefits of live facial recognition, as the force looks to pursue digital transformation in law enforcement – and rolls out new static LFR cameras in central…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1489+ words) The 10-page developerPrivacyPolicy (PTA), labeled ICE Task Force Module (TFM), Version ICE Privacy 09-2025, lists the app’s launch date as September 24, 2025, and says the project was in development when the document was approved by the ICE Privacy Office the next day....

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1652+ words) The U.S. Secret Service (USSS) has begun field testing a mobile facial recognition application called “Sentry” that could be at odds with a 2024 Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA). No separate PIA for Sentry has been made public. The nearly two-year-old PIA says…...