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The bipartisan Traveler Privacy Protection Act would give travelers at airports the option to not have their faces scanned by the technology.
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AI DOGE enters Homeland Security’s biometrics operations; Trump administration kicks off acquisition overhaul
Sources say the Elon Musk-led group is considering a system that agency leaders had hoped would replace its current biometrics database.
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The Department of Homeland Security logo is seen inside a press conference room on May 11, 2017, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images) Transition DOGE has arrived at the heart of Homeland Security’s biometrics operations
Sources say the Elon Musk-led group is considering a system that agency leaders had hoped would replace its current biometrics database.
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Maria Roat, Margie Graves, Suzette Kent and Erie Meyer appear at a hearing before the Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation on April 29, 2025. Roat and Graves are former deputy federal CIOs, Kent was the federal CIO under the first Trump administration, and Meyer was previously the chief technologist at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Federal Trade Commission. (Photo by Madison Alder) Federal Former federal technologists highlight TMF, shared tech solutions amid DOGE push
While lawmakers and panelists agreed IT modernization should be bipartisan, DOGE loomed over the discussion.
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Rodney Scott, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, testifies during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on April 30, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images News) AI Customs and Border Protection’s AI investments won’t erase need for officers, nominee says
Rodney Scott told senators the agency is pushing forward on non-intrusive technologies for inspections, but humans will continue to play a major role.
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This illustration picture shows the ChatGPT logo displayed on a smartphone in Washington, DC, on March 15, 2023. (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images) AI OpenAI tech is now available at the Labor Department
The move makes Labor one of the latest agencies to gain access to generative AI tools from the maker of ChatGPT.
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Defense Meet CODY, GSA’s new procurement automaton tool; Democrats question Secret Service’s anti-drone work at DC airport
Agency officials tell FedScoop that the CODY bot is now ready for use across the federal government.
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A passenger jet takes off over the runway threshold lights at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Aug. 12, 2024, in Arlington, Va. (Photo by J. David Ake/Getty Images) Tech Democrats raise questions about Secret Service’s anti-drone work at DC airport
A Monday letter from top Democrats on the House Transportation and Homeland Security committees raises serious concerns about safety at the airport.
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Government Accountability Office Comptroller General Gene Dodaro stands in the hallway and waits for a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to begin on Capitol Hill on Feb. 25, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) Transition After a slow start, GAO says it’s now hearing from DOGE
The comptroller general said DOGE is “actually using our recommendations” after the Elon Musk-led group had barely any contact with the watchdog during the first month of the administration.
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Tech IRS chief resigns following deal to share taxpayer data with ICE; Trump takes aim at Pentagon acquisition
Melanie Krause is taking the government’s deferred resignation offer after the tax and immigration enforcement agencies reached a controversial information-sharing pact.