Documents released by the FBI show the bureau plans to double the size of its facial recognition database by 2015 and will, for the first time, include facial images of millions of people who have not been convicted of any crimes.
PRISM, the name of the clandestine program, set off a firestorm in governments near and far. It has also brought a flood of competitors to the IT sector. These include a slew of non-U.S. companies offering customers cloud storage options that are alternatives to Dropbox and other services from this country. Their pitch tends to be that choosing them removes worries about what data NSA is collecting and not collecting entirely out of the equation and that their packages are less intrusive and more secure.
Jeffrey Ait, director of the public sector – North America at Good Technology, chats with FedScoopTV about disruptive mobile trends in government.
Margie Graves, deputy chief information officer at the Homeland Security Department, Peter Gouldmann, director of the State Department’s information risk programs, and Steve Viar, director of FEDSIM at the General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service spoke at yesterday’s AFFIRM luncheon about the current status and future of continuous diagnostics mitigation.
Like many other agencies, the Education Department is asking the public for input on ways it can increase innovation, transparency and access to data.
The Government Accountability Office acts as the watchdog for the federal government, keeping constant oversight on departments and agencies. But sometimes, even GAO needs some extra weight behind it.
If you thought the Feb. 20 release of the Pentagon’s spectrum strategy signaled the beginning of a massive shift of communications bandwidth from the military to the wireless industry, think again.
Glamour icon John Barrett announces the opening of a salon in D.C.
This week, Technocrat columnist asks whether Qualcomm’s new MU-MIMO technology will lead to a three times’ increase in wireless speeds?
