The White House has started to update its information technology systems following the appointment of former Facebook Engineering Director David Recordon as director of White House IT in 2015, the New York Times reported
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Josh Miller, formerly head of product development at Facebook Inc., has joined the White House as director of product. Miller wrote in a blog post published Tuesday that he intends to leverage
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The Department of Homeland Security has released a list of keywords and phrases it follows when monitoring social networking sites and online media, Daniel Miller reports for the Daily Mail. DHS analysts
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The FBI is asking technology companies for assistance in upgrading how the bureau gathers information from sources such as social media and popular news websites. According to a request for information on
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Google Plus users can now add the White House to their circles as of Friday. In a Friday blog post, the White House announced that it has joined Google’s social networking service
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The IBM Center for the Business of Government will host a 12-week course on the government’s use of social media starting in February. According to IBM, the course will provide training on
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A recent memo from President Obama asking for federal agencies to improve archiving processes of digital records such as e-mail and social media begs the question of how this can be done,
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The Office of Personnel Management said it’s working non-stop to accommodate job seekers on the updated USAJobs.gov site after it was overloaded with high volume traffic and left at a standstill for
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According to a new survey from Market Connections, 92 percent of federal respondents said they used social media within the last year. The survey, reported by AOL Government, shows an additional 74
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Privacy concerns are the reason Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), recently requested a report from the Federal Trade Commission on the security challenges of facial recognition technology. According to NextGov.com, the chairman of
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