surveillance Archives

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas testifies before the House Homeland Security Committee on the fiscal year 2025 budget in Washington, D.C. on April 16, 2024. (Photo by Allison Bailey / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)

140+ groups flag DHS’s AI use cases in new letter to Mayorkas

The letter to the secretary from a collection of immigrant and civil rights organizations, unions and more comes ahead of upcoming deadlines for agencies related to their…

Sep 4, 2024 By Rebecca Heilweil

USCIS — A sign outside a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration office in the Northlake area of DeKalb County, Georgia. (Image credit: Gulbenk / Wikimedia Commons).

Senators petition ICE to curtail ‘Orwellian’ use of facial recognition, surveillance technology

Sens. Edward Markey, D-Mass., and Ron Wyden, D-OR. call on the agency to stop purchasing private information from data brokers.

Sep 13, 2022 By Nihal Krishan

(U.S. Customs and Border Protection / Flickr)

Another agency draws attention of senators for warrantless use of phone data

Customs and Border Protection spent nearly half a million dollars on a subscription to Venntel's phone location database.

Oct 23, 2020 By Dave Nyczepir

vision, computer, wireframe, surveillance, see through walls — (Getty Images)

Army wants tech than can identify people through walls

An RFI adds some new elements to the old dream of X-ray vision.

Jan 30, 2020 By Jackson Barnett

IARPA launches second edition of drone surveillance challenge

Last year's challenge didn't solve the problem the agency wanted solved.

Mar 18, 2019 By Tajha Chappellet-Lanier

A C-17 Globemaster III assigned to the 701st Airlift Squadron, Joint Base Charleston, S.C., taxis out during Exercise Patriot Sands, Homestead Air Reserve Base, Fla., Feb. 23, 2019. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Larry E. Reid Jr.)

VMD Corp scores $77M contract to support Air Force IT

VMD will support Air Force's A6 CIO shop with business analysis, advisory and assistance services.

Feb 25, 2019 By Billy Mitchell

pedestrians facial recognition — (Getty Images)

Shareholders also want Amazon to stop selling facial recognition tech to government

Rekognition is under fire, again.

Jan 17, 2019 By Tajha Chappellet-Lanier

Help IARPA develop better activity detection algorithms for long video

Video surveillance creates a lot of data. But then what?

Nov 8, 2018 By Tajha Chappellet-Lanier

The Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Division at the Combined Air Operations Center at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. (Air Force photo)

Pentagon’s Project Maven responds to criticism: ‘There will be those who will partner with us’

Artificial intelligence has the capacity to help warfighters accomplish their missions faster and with less collateral damage, leaders said Tuesday. Google employees recently criticized the surveillance project.

May 1, 2018 By Tajha Chappellet-Lanier

Needed at IARPA: Better tools for drone surveillance

The advanced research office is interested in better automatic object recognition algorithms for imagery gathered by drones.

Feb 20, 2018