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British security agencies will be forced to destroy biometric data of forty-five terror suspects. The DNA samples and fingerprints were retained for a longer...

The U.S police forces want to have photographed evidence that will support their actions. The White House has asked for $263 million in funding for...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is getting increasingly better year by year. It can answer questions, find patterns in data, and even drive cars. Now, researchers...

  A new software application can predict appearance and ancestry from forensic DNA samples, and could help police teams solve complex cases. Snapshot is a...

Register to iHLS Israel Homeland Security In this weekly Video report (February 10th 2015): U.S Visa waiver program is under attack by many experts Terror attacks on...

Paz Shabtai Following the Paris attacks, apparently planned under the noses of French and Belgian authorities, one possibility is that Islamic State militants have found...

A joint project between NASA and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) resulted in a smart program that will do just about anything...

Amazon was recently granted a patent for miniature police shoulder drones. The device is officialy called an “unmanned aerial vehicle assistant,” aimed at use...

Aerial transportation security is one of the critical issues security authorities have to deal with all over the world, since an aiport is the...

The Dutch national police might be using augmented reality and hologram technologies in fighting crime, within the framework of an innovative project. The project...

Delhi police officers will deploy a mini unmanned air vehicle capable of flying night-time surveillance operations, in response to recent crimes committed in the...

Register to iHLS Israel Homeland Security In this weekly report (January 6 2015): DARPA Taking Inspiration from Birds of Prey to Develop Agile UASs An Israeli missile...

New body cameras embedded into police officers’ uniform offer automatic, policy-based recording functionality, helping police officers automatically capture, offload and view media evidence. Manufactured...

Airport security first came to the public eye on September 11, 2001, when 4 airplanes were hijacked and crashed into U.S targets, killing almost...

When Cody Wilson revealed the world’s first fully 3D printed gun last year, he showed that the “maker” movement has enabled anyone to create...

As virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) have grown in popularity within the gaming and entertainment industries over the past few years, the...

The US regulation regarding UAVs will have to overcome an important technical hurdle  - remote identification - before the unmanned aerial vehicle industry can...

The U.S Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), in partnership with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Jet Propulsion...

An information and communication (ICT) company has been meeting with several government leaders in Africa to detail how its safe city solution could be...

Israel may look at some systems currently being used by the U.S. Border Patrol for fighting drug-smuggling tunnels. The U.S. Border Patrol unveiled one of...

By Eyal Harel Last Tuesday a dangerous substance leaked from a vehicle in a main street of one of the neighborhoods in Jerusalem.  The incident...

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are finally giving conservationists a significant lead in the fight against poachers. Lindbergh Foundation’s Air Shepherd Initiative employs drones to...