Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have allegedly turned state driver’s license databases into a facial-recognition database, scanning millions of Americans’ photos without their knowledge or consent.
The number of federal workers fired every year by agencies fell from 0.57 percent in FY 2009 to 0.46 percent in 2013, according to data from the Office of Personnel Management and compiled by Federal Times. In comparison, the private sector fires nearly six times as many employees – about 3.2 percent.
A new federal report highlights “trauma-informed” approaches adopted by more than three-dozen federal agencies to address violence and abuse against women, according to TheCrimeReport.org.
Anarchist notes and video messages, along with graffiti and stockpiles of possible weapons, are the most recent threats to come out of anarchist groups such as Anonymous toward the RNC and DNC.
Bringing the total of seized sites to 839 in the past two years, the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agency has seized 70 more sites selling counterfeit or illegal goods.
