DHS/CBP/PIA-003 Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Modernization effort includes two separate modernization initiatives that include 1) a new user interface to streamline all ACE business processes to track, monitor, manage and process commercial goods; and 2) enhanced truck manifest functionality to assist the trade community and CBP Officers (CBPO) during truck processing at U.S. ports of entry (POE) that integrates information from multiple scanning and imaging technologies to provide CBP Officers with cargo, trip, driver, and vehicle details and enable CBP Officers to make data-driven vetting decisions in real-time. CBP is publishing this Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) to serve as public notice of CBP's new modernized ACE Secure Data Portal (ACE Portal) and ACE Truck Manifest Modernization (TMM) effort and to outline the privacy risks and mitigation of the agency's use of personally identifiable information from members of the public. September 2023