Idemia wins contract to supply multi-biometric system to IRS
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that it intends to award a sole source contract to Idemia Identity &…
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.
NIST continues to study immersive technology cyber, privacy issues
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) continues to conduct research it began earlier this year into the…
Google settles over kids biometric data collection in schools
Google and the parents of an Illinois girl who sued (H.K. et al. v. Google LLC) the tech giant in…
US Marshals Service set to buy SIC Biometrics fingerprint scanners
The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS), the agency of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) that oversees the classified Witness Security…
USAID launches ‘digital policy’ to guide it through next decade
This past week, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Samantha Power announced the agency’s new $14.6 million digital policy…
Login.gov deployment at US tax agency still on rocky ground
For more than a year between December 2022 and March 2023, the Personally Identifiable Information (PII) of more than 57,000…
IT systems for US security clearances at risk, GAO says
As the four-year-old U.S. Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) continues to build out the National Background Investigation Services (NBIS)…
NIST updates federal PIV standards to better align with FIPS 201
This week, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued revisions to two of its special publications which…
Controversial US privacy bill rewritten again, but path still unclear
The already controversial American Privacy Rights Act of 2024 (APRA), which was originally introduced in April by U.S. Senate Commerce…
Online age verification requirements in US legislation raise thorny problems
More than a dozen bills have been introduced in the current U.S. Congress that, if enacted, would increase protections for…
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