There are bipartisan calls from Capitol Hill for the tax-collection agency to consider several potential privacy and security threats posed by ID.me's technology.

The issue has long been a concern for civil liberties groups and press advocates.

Privacy advocates are denouncing the ruling.

As federal agencies increasingly draw on biometric data for their work, the stakes for protecting that data from hackers have grown.

It's not great that a lone engineer was able to pull data from 106 million people. But this was far from Equifax 2.0.

The punishment could last for years if Perceptics is placed on a government blacklist.

The hackers struck after the unnamed subcontractor transferred copies of the images collected by CBP to the subcontractor’s network.

It's another piece of data that can be used to sell "fullz," or full stolen profiles used to commit identity theft.

While the Department of Homeland Security has looked to step up its use of drones to patrol the southern border, lax security policies have left the collected data vulnerable, a new audit finds.

Amid calls to remove the company out of the government, the FBI has been telling private sector companies that Kaspersky is an unacceptable threat to national security.