The Security Industry Association (SIA) is defending the continued use of automated license plate readers while calling for tighter privacy…
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Anthony Kimery is the former Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of Homeland Security Today. He managed the magazine, daily online news operations and wrote the award-winning "Kimery Report," which covered a broad spectrum of HS-related issues, from public health preparedness to intelligence collection. He has 30-plus years of broad institutional knowledge and expertise in homeland/national security matters and issues as an editor, analyst, and consultant. He also serves as Advisory Board Member of Mississippi College’s Center for Counterterrorism Studies. Connect with Anthony on LinkedIn.
DHS launches $440M government-wide biometric capture procurement
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has launched a government-wide procurement that could standardize how federal agencies capture fingerprints,…
US Labor department explores digital worker identity platform for employment compliance
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is exploring a digital workforce identity system that could link a worker’s verified identity…
Clearview AI prototype points to next phase of facial recognition: identity intelligence
Clearview AI has developed an experimental AI tool that could extend a facial recognition search into broader automated research on…
Federal regulators say mDLs can be used for bank identity checks
Banks and credit unions can use state-issued mobile driver’s licenses and other government-issued verifiable digital credentials to verify the identities…
RAND warns security biometrics, digital ID can become tools for targeting
According to a new RAND Europe report, security agencies adopting biometric identification, digital identity, and AI systems should be required…
Meta sued over alleged facial recognition training for smart glasses
Meta Platforms is facing a proposed nationwide class action lawsuit accusing the company of using photographs from Facebook and Instagram…
AI fraud accelerates US’ shift toward cryptographic digital identity
For decades, proving identity online has often meant converting a physical credential into a digital artifact. Generative AI and industrial-scale…
trinamiX accuses Apple of infringing Face ID skin-detection patents
Germany-based BASF subsidiary trinamiX has sued Apple in U.S. federal court, alleging that Face ID technology in newer iPhones and…
US House intelligence report urges CBP to use land border biometrics to ‘build profiles’
Twenty-five years after the 9/11 Commission called for a biometric system capable of tracking foreign nationals entering and leaving the…
