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Border Surveillance Systems (BSS)

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) deploys Border Surveillance Systems (BSS) to provide comprehensive situational awareness along the United States border for border security and national security purposes, and to assist in detecting, identifying, apprehending, and removing individuals illegally entering the United States at and between ports of entry or otherwise violating U.S. law. BSS includes commercially available technologies such as fixed and mobile video surveillance systems, range finders, thermal imaging devices, radar, ground sensors, and radio frequency sensors.

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USCIS Investigations Division Case Management System (IDCMS)

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)’s Office of Security and Integrity (OSI) developed the USCIS Investigations Division Case Management System (IDCMS), an electronic case management system, to manage information relating to investigations of alleged USCIS employee and contractor criminal or administrative violations. USCIS conducted this Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) to assess the privacy risks associated with the collection, use, and dissemination of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) contained in IDCMS.

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DHS-FEMA-PIA – 039 Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration Risk Insurance Division Underwriting and Claims Operation Review Tool

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)’s Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration (FIMA) Risk Insurance Division (RID) owns and operates the Underwriting and Claims Operation Review Tool (“U-CORT” or “Tool”).  U-CORT is a modernization of previously manual oversight mechanisms to improve the management of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) underwriting and claim loss adjustment process. This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) documents how U-CORT collects, uses, disseminates, and maintains Personally Identifiable Information (PII) of NFIP policy holders associated with underwriting and claim operation reviews.

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DHS-ALL-PIA-046-1-a Neptune

The DHS Data Framework is a scalable information technology program with built-in capabilities to support advanced data architecture and governance processes. The Framework is DHS’s “big data” solution to build in privacy protections while enabling more controlled, effective, and efficient use of existing homeland security-related information across the DHS enterprise and with other U.S. Government partners, as appropriate. Currently, the Framework includes the Neptune and Cerberus systems, and the Common Entity Index. Between November 2013 and August 2014, DHS deployed a pilot/prototype to test different capabilities needed to implement the Framework. After the successful completion of the pilot/prototype phase, DHS now intends to mature the Framework by entering into the next phase—limited production capability. DHS is updating the original Framework Privacy Impact Assessments, including this Neptune Privacy Impact Assessment, to reflect this transition to limited production capability.

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DHS-ALL-PIA-046-3-a Cerberus

DHS-ALL-PIA-046-3-a Cerberus

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DHS-ALL-PIA-046-a DHS Data Framework

DHS-ALL-PIA-046-a DHS Data Framework

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DHS/ALL/PIA-014 Personal Identity Verification/Identity Management System (PIV/IDMS)

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is updating the Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) Update, issued on June 18, 2009, to reflect changes in Departmental requirements and enhanced interoperability with US-VISIT Automated Biometric Identification System (IDENT) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS), DHS Component Physical Access Control Systems (PACS), DHS Component Active Directories, as well as issuance of PIV compatible credentials to visitors to DHS.

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DHS-FEMA-PIA-015 Quality Assurance Recording System (QARS)

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)’s Office of Response and Recovery (ORR), Recovery Directorate, National Processing Service Center (NPSC) Division operates the Quality Assurance Recording System (QARS). QARS captures telephone and computer screen recordings for the purpose of evaluating employee and contractor performance. These evaluations are designed to improve customer service to disaster assistance applicants requesting assistance under the Robert T Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act. FEMA conducted this Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) because QARS captures Personally Identifiable Information (PII) about Individual Assistance and Public Assistance applicants, as well as FEMA employees and contractors.

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DHS-USSS-PIA-001 - Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI)

The US Secret Service (USSS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) co-sponsor and manage the Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI) reporting website, which is a tool for telecommunications carriers to report a breach of its customer proprietary network information to law enforcement. The USSS and the FBI conducted this Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) because the CPNI reporting website contains personally identifiable information (PII).

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DHS-TSA-PIA-045 Security Threat Assessment for Conditional Access to Sensitive Security Information

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) occasionally discloses Sensitive Security Information (SSI) to individuals so that they can assist with the design, implementation, or review of TSA security programs, techniques, or technology, or when needed to understand TSA functions. TSA may conclude that the individuals must undergo a security threat assessment (STA) as a condition of being granted access to the SSI. This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) was conducted because TSA will collect, maintain, and disseminate information in identifiable form on members of the public in order to conduct the STA.