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U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao announced nearly $60 million in federal grant funding to eight projects in seven states to test the safe integration of automated driving systems (ADS) on U.S. roadways.

U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) announced $23,185,283 in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to support improvement projects at 11 airports.

Ecuador is pushing to pass a privacy law after the massive data breach that affected more than 20 million individuals.

Yahoo will pay $117.5 million to settle the data breaches that occurred between 2012-2016.

The Detroit’s Board of Police Commissioners approved a policy for police to use facial recognition technology.

U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA), Vice Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and former tech entrepreneur, wrote to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and South Korean company Suprema HQ, following separate but alarming incidents that impacted both entities and exposed Americans’ personal, permanently identifiable data.

A new video from the group Sandy Hook Promise shows school kids dealing with the threat of gun violence in everyday life.

Las Vegas McCarran International Airport is set to install a facial recognition biometric solution at all international gates. 

During the Black Hat annual conference in Las Vegas August 3-8, 2019, Thycotic conducted research with nearly 300 attendees identifying either as “hackers” (49 percent) or “security professionals” (51 percent).