US grocery store chain faces backlash over its use of facial recognition
U.S.-based supermarket chain Wegmans Food Markets has found itself at the center of a rapidly widening privacy controversy over its…
Articles By Anthony Kimery
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.
DHS agent tells court REAL ID can’t be used to confirm US citizenship
A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) immigration enforcement agent told a federal court that the REAL ID–compliant driver’s licenses that…
US State Dept. issues sources sought notice for biometric system in Guatemala
The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) issued a Sources Sought Notice to…
US Treasury awards ID.me $1B five-year contract
In a significant development for digital identity verification across U.S. federal agencies, ID.me has secured several notable contracts with U.S….
NIST warns token security remains a critical weakness in cloud, federal systems
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released a new draft report warning that weaknesses in how digital tokens…
2025 saw the quiet consolidation of America’s biometric border
By the end of 2025, it was no longer credible to describe the U.S. government’s use of biometrics in immigration…
New Virginia law tests a time limit approach to teen social media use
Virginia will begin enforcing a new social media law on January 1 that, by default, will limit children under 16…
The high stakes push to fix America’s broken travel experience
In the final months of 2025, the modernization of the U.S. travel system is no longer a collection of pilot…
FBI director hints at bureau’s quiet expansion of global biometrics reach
When Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel wrote this week on X that the bureau had “undertaken a…
Judge blocks Texas app store age verification law as unconstitutional
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas has blocked Texas’ sweeping App Store Accountability Act from taking…
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