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Privacy

The DHS Privacy Office is responsible for evaluating the Department programs, systems, and initiatives for potential privacy impacts, and providing strategies to reduce the privacy impact.

  • DHS/ALL/PIA 059 DHS Employee Collaboration Tools

    DHS/ALL/PIA-059 DHS Employee Collaboration Tools

  • DHS/ALL/PIA 061 HSIN 3.0 Shared Spaces On The Sensitive But Unclassified Network

    DHS/ALL/PIA-061 HSIN 3.0 Shared Spaces On The Sensitive But Unclassified Network

  • DHS/ALL/PIA-061 1 HSIN Release 3 User Accounts: HSIN Enterprise Reporting Solution

    The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Chief Information Officer (OCIO) maintains the Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN). HSIN is designed to facilitate the secure integration and interoperability of information-sharing resources among federal, state, local, tribal, private-sector, and other non-governmental stakeholders involved in identifying and preventing terrorism, as well as undertaking incident management activities. This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) Update documents how OCIO has established information sharing relationships through a new centralized application called HSIN Exchange to provide authorized individuals access to: (1) securely create, send, and receive requests for information (RFI); and (2) “opt-in” to receive messages and emergency notifications called Flash Alerts, thereby streamlining these communications. This PIA Update also documents that OCIO now maintains HSIN; it was previously maintained by the Office of Operations Coordination and Planning, now known as the Office of Operations Coordination (OPS). May 2017

  • DHS/ALL/PIA 061 2 Homeland Security Information Network Database

    DHS/ALL/PIA-061-2 Homeland Security Information Network Database

  • DHS/ALL/PIA 061 3 Homeland Security Information Network Sensitive But Unclassified

    DHS/ALL/PIA-061-3 Homeland Security Information Network Sensitive But Unclassified

  • DHS/ALL/PIA-062 Homeland Security Information Network Leveraging Military Training Portal

    DHS/ALL/PIA-062 Homeland Security Information Network Leveraging Military Training Portal

  • DHS/ALL/PIA-063 Drug-Free Workplace Program

    DHS/ALL/PIA-063 Drug-Free Workplace Program

  • DHS/ALL/PIA-077 Biometric Interoperability Between DHS and DOJ

    In 2006, OBIM and the Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of Justice (DOJ), developed an interoperability project to support the sharing of information among DHS, DOJ, and their respective stakeholders.   This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) update was conducted to reflect the expansion of DHS–DOJ interoperability to include users and  uses  not  previously  covered  under  the  interim  Data  Sharing  Model  (iDSM)  for  the IDENT/IAFIS  Interoperability  Project  (iDSM)  and  First  Phase  of  the  Initial  Operating Capability (IOC) of Interoperability between the DHS and the DOJ PIA (IOC) PIAs. In addition, DHS-DOJ Interoperability is expanding to allow approved users access to a more comprehensive IDENT response, containing up to all data fields captured in IDENT.

  • DHS/ALL/PIA–033 Department of Homeland Security Use of Google Analytics

    The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) uses Google Analytics for viewing and analyzing traffic to the Department’s public-facing websites. Google Analytics is a free, third-party hosted, website analytics solution that generates robust information about the interactions of public-facing website visitors with the Department. DHS does not collect, maintain, or retrieve personally identifiable information (PII), including a visitor’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, during this analytics process operated by Google. Google Analytics does not provide to DHS, share with Google or any Google product for additional analysis, or use the full or masked IP address or information to draw any conclusions in the analytics product. The Department has expressly chosen to opt-out of sharing information with Google or any Google product for additional analysis. This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) update is being conducted to analyze the privacy risks of the Department’s use of Google Analytics on internal-facing, anonymous access websites.

  • DHS/ALL/PIA—058 Access Lifecycle Management

    DHS's Access Lifecycle Management (ALM) is the technology and business process that manages the identities and access rights of DHS employees and contractors, ensuring that they only have access to approved systems and applications. DHS is publishing this Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) because ALM uses, stores, and disseminates personally identifiable information (PII) of DHS employees and contractors in order to manage their accounts and identities. January 2017

    Associated SORN(s)

    • DHS/ALL-037 E-Authentication Records System of Records