2+ hour, 58+ min ago  (1145+ words) A group of Senate Democrats Thursday renewed a push to regulate the use of AI in federal elections, targeting both synthetic media designed to mislead voters and automated or database-driven voter challenges that voting rights advocates warn could be used…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago  (1173+ words) The creation of the Joint Interagency Task Force-Counter Cartel (JIATF-CC) under the U. S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) marks more than another escalation in Washington's campaign against Mexican cartels and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) It shows how biometric identification, identity intelligence, law enforcement…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago  (357+ words) By Nat Pisupati, regional sales director MEA at HID FARGO Joseph Atick, executive chairman of ID4 Africa, described digital identity as essential to digital transformation, arguing that "meaningful digital transformation cannot happen without digital identity. He is correct: Africa's ambitions around…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago  (389+ words) Nigeria is increasingly framing digital identity, data infrastructure and online services as matters of digital sovereignty, as the country seeks to reduce reliance on foreign platforms and extract greater economic value from its growing digital economy. Officials and industry leaders…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago  (542+ words) Digital platforms have co-opted the onerous task of job hunting, but according to new research many job seekers don't realise their personal data is being sold. In the age of online friendships, algorithmic entertainment and digital dating, there's much we…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (947+ words) The U. S. Department of Justice's (Do J) Model Cities Initiative (MCI) announced Thursday is framed as a public safety grant program, but its nearly $300 million in funding appears aimed at something more politically consequential. Do J describes the program as a "whole-of-city" approach…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (564+ words) The UK government's Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) has released its Main Estimate memorandum for 2026 to 2027, laying out how the department spends its budget " which will increase significantly this year. DSIT's resource budget will increase by "242. 3 million and its…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (908+ words) Connecticut has enacted a sweeping package of privacy, online safety, and AI measures that places the state among the most active in the country in regulating the commercial data economy and emerging algorithmic harms. Gov. Ned Lamont signed Senate Bill…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (432+ words) Beatcrime was the first police map to show crime data at street level specificity and was built with considerably less than the "4 million investment announced by the UK government for a real-time and interactive crime map of England and Wales....

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (716+ words) Data is the gold of the twenty-first century, the valuable commodity that big tech, governments and bad actors all covet. Securing it and innovating with it is the defining competition in the modern marketplace as Thales is back with its…...