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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/CBP/PIA – 025 1:1 Facial Comparison Project

    The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is conducting the 1:1 Facial Recognition Air Entry Pilot to allow Customs and Border Protection Officers stationed at air ports of entry to use facial recognition technology as a tool to assist them in determining whether an individual presenting themselves with a valid U.S. electronic passport is the same individual photographed in that passport. The operational goals of this pilot are to determine the viability of facial recognition as a technology to assist Customs Border Patrol Officers in identifying possible imposters using U.S. e-passports to enter the United States and determine if facial recognition technology can be incorporated into current CBP entry processing with acceptable impacts to processing time and the traveling public while effectively providing CBP officers with a tool to counter imposters using valid U.S. travel documents. CBP is publishing this Privacy Impact Assessment to evaluate the privacy risks of using facial recognition software at an air port of entry.

  • DHS/CBP/PIA-002 Global Enrollment System (GES)

    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) operates Global Entry, a program that provides dedicated processing for pre-approved travelers arriving in the United States. Program participants volunteer to provide personally identifiable information (PII) and consent to CBP security vetting in return for expedited processing at designated U.S. Ports of Entry (POE) or for access to sensitive CBP-controlled areas or positions. CBP is updating this Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) to provide notice to the public regarding the upgrade of Global Entry kiosks with facial recognition technology to facilitate traveler identification and entry processing.

  • 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

  • DHS/CBP/PIA-0037 Pre-Arrival Readiness Evaluation (PARE) Pilot

    DHS/CBP/PIA-0037 Pre-Arrival Readiness Evaluation (PARE) Pilot

  • Border Searches of Electronic Devices

    DHS/CBP/PIA-008 – Border Searches of Electronic Devices

  • TECS System: CBP Primary and Secondary Processing (TECS) National SAR Initiative

    TECS is the principal system used by officers at the border to assist with screening and determinations regarding admissibility of arriving persons. This update will evaluate the privacy impacts of identifying certain of the operational records maintained in TECS as Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) for inclusion in the National SAR Initiative (NSI), which is led by the Department of Justice on behalf of the entire federal government.

  • Intellectual Property Rights e-Recordation and Search Systems (IPRRSS)

    DHS/CBP/PIA-011- Intellectual Property Rights e-Recordation and Search Systems (IPRRSS)

  • DHS/CBP/PIA-016(a) I-94 Website Application

    CBP issues Form I-94 among other purposes, to provide documentation of the approved length of stay and departure of nonimmigrant aliens.

  • DHS/CBP/PIA-027 Southwest Border Pedestrian Exit Field Test

    DHS/CBP/PIA-027 Southwest Border Pedestrian Exit Field Test 

  • DHS/CBP/PIA-028 Regulatory Management Information System (RAMIS)

    DHS/CBP/PIA-028 Regulatory Management Information System (RAMIS)