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, 1+ week ago   (420+ words) Italy’s new policy on storing face biometrics is or is not breaching EU laws, depending on who you ask. Data protection authority Autorità Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali (GPDP) says sì. A representative of Premier Giorgia Meloni says…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (350+ words) Resumed deployments of live facial recognition from Corsight AI by Essex Police have led to dozens of arrests without a single false positive match across scans of 353,000 faces, according to a company announcement. Essex Police began redeploying the biometric technology…...

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…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (657+ words) A previously undocumented malware campaign targeting government and diplomatic organizations in Southeast Asia used a succession of remote access, credential theft and data exfiltration tools designed to remain inside compromised networks for months before removing the information it had collected....

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (403+ words) The announcement by the Metropolitan Police Service that they are to deploy drones across all 32 London boroughs shouldn’t come as a surprise – at least not to anyone involved in providing police aerial capability. When we established NPAS in West Yorkshire…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (422+ words) Germany’s Federal Police appear on track to get new powers in a broad update of their governing rules, including a legal basis to use live facial recognition in public in certain emergency situations. The changes were approved by the Bundestag,…...