Lawmakers are trying to deter would-be hackers from carrying out cyber attacks that have paralyzed companies, hospital systems and local governments, including Baltimore’s city government.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jan 21, 2020
The new policies, meant to protect elder privacy, have also drawn criticism because of the requirement that families notify care facilities before they install the camera.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jan 17, 2020
The data privacy bill would give consumers the right to access and delete data collected about them, while the facial recognition legislation would regulate government use of the software.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jan 15, 2020
A bill is currently before the state House that would ban government use of biometric technology until the legislature regulates how agencies can adopt it.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jan 15, 2020
Created in the wake of a shooting at the Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue, the grant program opened its application process last week.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jan 14, 2020
The bipartisan measure would allow parents to delete information collected by companies about their kids and raise the age of parental consent protection from 13 to 16.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jan 13, 2020
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority maintains that it has not used facial recognition on riders, but privacy advocates want records related to the technology the agency purchased.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jan 10, 2020
The advisory warned businesses about cyber attacks featuring cryptocurrency sites and spam campaigns impersonating government agencies.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jan 08, 2020
Native Americans had the highest rates of false positives, while African-American women were most likely to be misidentified in a law enforcement database.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 24, 2019
Eight Democrats in the House and Senate want to know if public housing residents are included in decisions about facial recognition use.
- By Adam Mazmanian
- Dec 20, 2019
The non-invasive system has been implemented by more transportation authorities around the world to address threats of terrorism in public spaces.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 19, 2019
Thanks to a statewide policy banning law enforcement use of facial recognition for three years, several agencies in San Diego will lose access to a database of facial scans.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 17, 2019
The travel companies were fined for lax data security practices that potentially led to a breach affecting 880,000 payment cards globally.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 17, 2019
The vote marks the fourth town that has banned facial recognition this year, following Somerville, Mass. and San Francisco and Oakland in California.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 16, 2019
The cyberattack caused the city to completely shut down its network for several days, but did not affect emergency services.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 16, 2019
There is little known about the government’s use of “stingrays,” which tracks the locations of a cell phone and all devices within its range.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 13, 2019
The Port of Seattle Commission approved a moratorium on new biometric technology programs on Tuesday amid concern over data privacy and the tool’s accuracy.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 13, 2019
The ongoing debate over Apple and Facebook’s decision to not build “backdoors” for law enforcement to obtain encrypted messages continued to rage during a Senate hearing on Tuesday.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 12, 2019
The government has not linked the attack to the shooting, which is being investigated as an act of terrorism.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 11, 2019
The shooting in Jersey City lasted for over an hour and ended with a firefight between the suspects and several police officers.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 10, 2019
After the FCC voted to ban telecommunications companies from using subsidies to buy equipment from Huawei, the Chinese company filed suit.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 10, 2019
Friends of the gunman, who was in the Saudi air force, have been cooperating with the investigation into the attack, which killed three sailors.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 09, 2019
The decision to reverse plans to expand facial recognition at ports of entry came after widespread criticism from legislators and activists.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 06, 2019
This is the second time in three days that a shooter has opened fire at a U.S. naval base.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 06, 2019
Two House members want the Department of Homeland Security to increase its rate of inspection from 15 percent of commercial vehicles to 100 percent.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 06, 2019
The Trump administration plans to expand facial scans from a pilot program for foreign travelers to include all travelers, including permanent residents and citizens.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 05, 2019
The viral app concerned senators due to the amount of data that it collected, including facial scans of users.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 04, 2019
The gunman, a current U.S. sailor, shot the three civilian workers before turning the gun on himself.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 04, 2019
Officials have seen an increase of counterfeit goods being sold directly to customers as well as a rise in the use of the dark web.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 03, 2019
Two House members say the Department of Homeland Security does not have enough authority to deploy defense equipment to take down drones.
- By Haley Samsel
- Nov 26, 2019
Huawei has started granting licenses to companies, including Microsoft, hoping to sell products to the Chinese tech giant.
- By Haley Samsel
- Nov 25, 2019
The legislation faces a tough road ahead in the Senate and a potential veto from the Trump administration, which opposes the current version of the bill.
- By Haley Samsel
- Nov 22, 2019
The bipartisan legislation would prevent “abuse” of the surveillance tool by federal authorities, according to Sens. Chris Coons and Mike Lee.
- By Haley Samsel
- Nov 20, 2019
Several services were shut down on Monday, but the governor says that it was a pre-emptive measure and that the ransomware did not infect all government servers.
- By Haley Samsel
- Nov 19, 2019
The ban seeks to prohibit the use of all facial recognition technology by city officials and employees in Portland, Maine.
- By Sherelle Black
- Nov 18, 2019
Authorities have arrested seven men across the U.S. who were part of the money laundering fraud scheme.
- By Haley Samsel
- Nov 15, 2019
Under the terms of the ruling, border agents must demonstrate “individualized suspicion” of international travelers before officials can seize and search an electronic device.
- By Haley Samsel
- Nov 14, 2019
The Supreme Court refused Tuesday to shield a major arms manufacturer from potential liability in the 2012 school shooting that left 26 students and educators dead in Newtown, Connecticut.
- By Sherelle Black
- Nov 12, 2019
The Project on Government Oversight wants more information about how the agency has solicited facial recognition software from Amazon and other companies.
- By Haley Samsel
- Nov 11, 2019
The new approach to reviewing officers’ footage comes as researchers question how much impact body cameras have had on police behavior.
- By Haley Samsel
- Nov 08, 2019
Seven current and former employees at Aventura Technologies are facing federal charges for falsely claiming their products were manufactured in the U.S.
- By Haley Samsel
- Nov 08, 2019
The legislation is part of a growing industry-wide and government effort to attract more workers to the cybersecurity field.
- By Haley Samsel
- Nov 07, 2019
The DMV, already besieged by other issues, says that 3,200 license holders had their data improperly exposed to federal agencies, including immigration authorities.
- By Haley Samsel
- Nov 07, 2019
More counties want to expand mobile and online voting, but cybersecurity experts say there are still too many vulnerabilities to roll out mobile voting systems.
- By Haley Samsel
- Nov 06, 2019
The government has received over 200 requests from American companies to continue doing business with Huawei.
- By Haley Samsel
- Nov 05, 2019
While the sawing incidents are concerning to border agents, they say that new electronic sensors and the deployment of other resources are making bollard incidents less common.
- By Haley Samsel
- Nov 05, 2019
The senator and presidential candidate says that the technology needs “better safeguards” before it is deployed in housing.
- By Haley Samsel
- Nov 04, 2019
All of the drones used by the department were either manufactured in China or use parts that were made in the country, sparking concerns about potential hacking threats.
- By Haley Samsel
- Nov 01, 2019
The ACLU’s lawsuit is the most recent development in a growing debate over regulation of facial recognition use by law enforcement.
- By Haley Samsel
- Nov 01, 2019
Police chiefs want their officers to wear body cameras at all times, but officers serving on federal task forces are forbidden from doing so.
- By Haley Samsel
- Oct 29, 2019
Chuck Schumer and Tom Cotton sent a letter to the director of national intelligence expressing concerns about ByteDance, which owns the video app TikTok.
- By Haley Samsel
- Oct 28, 2019
The bill, introduced by Democratic legislators on Tuesday, would direct a committee to create security benchmarks and then give labels to products who meet those standards.
- By Haley Samsel
- Oct 24, 2019
Lawmakers in the city are not advocating outright bans, but say that regulation is necessary to know how police and business owners are using the software.
- By Haley Samsel
- Oct 23, 2019
Sen. Ron Wyden, a staunch advocate of increased cybersecurity regulations, introduced the legislation as part of an effort to track how companies collect and share customer data.
- By Haley Samsel
- Oct 21, 2019
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill awarding millions of dollars in funding to UC Davis, which will teach healthcare providers intervention techniques for patients.
- By Haley Samsel
- Oct 21, 2019
Two other California cities have already adopted similar policies, and the state has also passed a ban on facial recognition in police body cameras.
- By Haley Samsel
- Oct 18, 2019
While the program has substantial public support and funding promised by philanthropists, the police commissioner has expressed doubts about its effectiveness.
- By Haley Samsel
- Oct 17, 2019
Customs and Border Protection is asking vendors to describe their ability to provide body cameras, video management, facial recognition technology and more.
- By Haley Samsel
- Oct 17, 2019
Hikvision and Dahua Technology has been “suspended,” and effectively expelled, from ONVIF.
- By Sherelle Black
- Oct 14, 2019
The measure, which will last until at least 2023, does not ban police from using facial recognition in other types of cameras.
- By Haley Samsel
- Oct 10, 2019