Congressional briefing renews concerns over security holes in Visa Waiver Program
With Qatar having become the first Gulf State to be admitted into the US Visa Waiver Program (VWP) in September,…
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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.
White House issues policy directive on defense, intelligence use of AI
The White House’s new National Security Memorandum (NSM) to implement President Joe Biden’s October 2023 Executive Order on the Safe,…
AI poses threat to biometric authentication, new report warns; but how soon?
The rise and evolution of “convincing deepfake technology poses a severe threat to traditional authentication systems that rely on visual…
GAO warns of privacy, transparency issues in commercial generative AI development
A new technology assessment report to US lawmakers on generative AI training, development, and deployment cautions that despite the efforts…
Transparency needed for risks, privacy policies of generative AI tools, report says
A new report from the New America Foundation, Translating the Artificial: Universal Design for Communicating Uses, Harms, and Policies for…
US DOJ issues final rule on foreign access to Americans’ PII
After months of reviewing the comments it received to its March 5 Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM), the US Department of…
US Congressional investigator specifies Login.gov’s persistent technical issues
While most of the 24 Chief Financial Officers (CFO) of federal agencies that use Login.gov for identity proofing services identified…
CBP releases details about new immigration appointment verification tool app
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is set to roll out the CBP One Appointment Validation Tool, a capability within…
Key US lawmakers ask for more info on NIST’s Digital Identity Guidelines
Three U.S. lawmakers with sway over federal technology policies asked the director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology…
Report: Synthetic identity fraud is growing
A new U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on its recent audit of the US Social Security Administration’s (SSA) Electronic…
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