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Where US Spy Agencies Get American’s Personal Data From

A report issued last week by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence indidates the US intelligence community has been collecting and storing large amounts of potentially sensitive and embarrassing information Read more…

Feds Seek Off-the-Shelf Imaging Technologies

Government agencies are increasingly looking to the commercial sector and particularly innovation hot spots like Silicon Valley for new machine vision and object detection technologies. The latest example comes from t Read more…

DHS Funds Cyber Data Research

Federal cyber defenders are taking a data-centric approach in their efforts to boost cyber defense research, distributing more than $5.6 million in contracts focused on new ways to collect data on hacking attempts that c Read more…

U.S. Visa Program Would Scan Social Media Data

Data industry groups are cautioning the government to take a middle course on a proposal to collect social media data about foreign travelers entering the U.S. under a visa waiver program. At issue is whether visitors Read more…

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