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Privacy Impact Assessments (PIA) Collection

The Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) is a decision tool to identify and mitigate privacy risks that notifies the public what Personally Identifiable Information (PII) DHS is collecting, why the PII is being collected and how the PII will be collected, used, accessed, shared, safeguarded and stored.

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  • DHS/CBP/PIA-006 Automated Targeting System

    CBP operates the Automated Targeting System (ATS).  ATS is a decision support tool that compares traveler, cargo, and conveyance information against law enforcement, intelligence, and other enforcement data using risk-based scenarios and assessments

  • DHS/OBIM/PIA-006 Automated Real-Time Identity Exchange System (ARIES)

    The Automated Real-time Identity Exchange System (ARIES) technology enables a single user interface for the facilitation of current international fingerprint-based information sharing programs by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Department of State (DOS), U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), and U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) with foreign partners. The ARIES technology facilitates connectivity and bilateral data exchange between foreign partners and domestic U.S. government agencies and improves auditing of fingerprint-based information sharing programs.

  • DHS/FEMA/PIA-053 Electronic Document and Records Management System (EDRMS)

    The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration (FIMA) owns and operates the Electronic Document and Records Management System (EDRMS). FIMA uses EDRMS for document management and record management. FIMA also uses EDRMS for conversion of paper documents to an electronic format in compliance with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) requirements, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) management of Federal records guidance and regulations, and Executive Directives. EDRMS is used as central storage of FIMA documents that are electronically scanned and that are not stored in other FIMA information technology (IT) systems.

  • DHS/FEMA/PIA-057 Individuals and Households Program Equity Analysis

    The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Office of Response and Recovery (ORR), Individual Assistance (IA) Division will manage the Individuals and Households Program (IHP) Equity Analysis project. The purpose of this project is to collect and analyze information from FEMA applicants to ensure the equitable and impartial distribution of supplies, processing of applications, and performance of other relief and assistance activities, in accordance with section 308(a) of the Stafford Act, which prohibits discrimination on grounds of race, color, religion, nationality, sex, age, disability, English proficiency, or economic status.

  • DHS/ICE/PIA-055 Repository for Analytics in a Virtualized Environment (RAVEn)

    The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Innovation Lab is developing an analytical platform called the Repository for Analytics in a Virtualized Environment (RAVEn). RAVEn will facilitate large, complex analytical projects to support ICE’s mission to enforce and investigate violations of U.S. criminal, civil, and administrative laws. RAVEn also enables users to develop new tools to analyze trends and isolate criminal patterns as HSI mission needs arise. ICE is publishing this Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) and its associated appendices because the analytical tools that reside on RAVEn access and store personally identifiable information (PII) retrieved from data systems owned by DHS, other governmental agencies, and commercial databases. ICE will regularly update the appendices to this PIA to reflect any new system connection or tool developed on the RAVEn platform.

  • DHS/ALL/PIA-043 Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer Talent Acquisition

    Talent Acquisition is a Federal Human Capital Business Function whereby federal agencies establish internal programs and procedures for attracting, recruiting, assessing, and selecting employees with the right skills and competencies in accordance with federal merit system principles. DHS is conducting this Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA), which updates and replaces the previous DHS Hiring and On-Boarding PIA, because the systems that support Talent Acquisition collect, use, store, and transmit personally identifiable information (PII) and sensitive personally identifiable information (SPII).

  • DHS/ALL/PIA-076 Data Management Hub

    The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) manages data on behalf of DHS Components when there is a need to share that data with the Intelligence Community (IC) and other national security partners or to support DHS mission use cases and applications using a secure data environment. The Data Management Hub (or “Data Hub”) is a set of technical components that facilitates the storage, enrichment, tagging, and movement of DHS and partner data by I&A on the classified network fabric. The goal of the Data Hub is to provide a single authoritative data store of datasets in order to reduce data duplication and improve the authorized usage of data for data-sharing and analysis.

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  • DHS/FEMA/PIA-056 Administered Disaster Case Management Program

    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Office of Response and Recovery (ORR), Individual Assistance (IA) Division provides FEMA-administered Disaster Case Management pursuant to Section 426 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. § 5189d (Stafford Act). Through FEMA-administered Disaster Case Management (DCM), FEMA supplements existing services provided by state and local organizations following a disaster to adequately meet the disaster-caused unmet needs of survivors.

  • DHS/USCIS/PIA-083 USCIS Enterprise Collaboration Network

    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration (USCIS) uses SharePoint-as-a-Service (SharePoint), commonly referred to throughout the agency as the Enterprise Collaboration Network (ECN), a web browser-based collaboration and document management platform from Microsoft. The USCIS ECN is a secure space for USCIS employees to create, manage, and share documents using customizable tools and services to eliminate additional investments in duplicative collaborative technologies. The USCIS ECN supports secure agency-wide collaboration and communication by connecting separate USCIS Program Offices and Directorates located in various geographic areas through the use of a common platform. USCIS is conducting this Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) to assess the privacy risks to the personally identifiable information (PII) collected, used, maintained, and disseminated on the USCIS ECN.