The Maryland Department of Human Services (DHS) has partnered with Binti, a child welfare technology company, to deploy advanced “family finding” software that accelerates the location of relatives ...

Localities must finalize and publish provincial forest boundary databases and maps by year-end to support Vietnam’s adaptation to the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR). The task is among key targets ...

In 2025, India linked its near-universal population register with the National Intelligence Grid, making citizens’ demographic and familial data routinely searchable by security agencies.

The database is no longer just where data lives, but where context gets assembled. And in AI, context is everything. Developers have spent the past decade trying to forget databases exist. Not ...

In case you needed further evidence that we’re living in the worst version of a cyberpunk dystopia, immigration officers are now scanning civilians’ faces to index them in a government database. Don’t ...

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Data managers are on the hook to deliver AI and intelligent agents to the enterprise when needed. To achieve these capabilities, they are working within diverse and decentralized data environments ...

Two sibling contractors convicted a decade ago for hacking into US State Department systems have once again been charged, this time for a comically hamfisted attempt to steal and destroy government ...

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France’s trove of DNA profiles has helped solve high-profile crimes and was used to find some of the Louvre suspects, and it is growing. The police can also access other countries’ databases. By ...