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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/S&T/PIA-017 Sensor Web

    The Sensor Web project is a research and development effort funded by DHS Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) Office of Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) that seeks to develop and test the effectiveness of a smart sensor system for potential law enforcement and first responder applications. The technologies being tested - video recording technology and analytic tools to interpret and process that video - are technologies that potentially impact the privacy of individuals, both during the tests and in future live settings. This PIA contemplates the immediate privacy impacts of conducting the tests as well as the more general privacy impacts of the technology itself.

  • DHS/S&T/PIA-018 First Responder Technologies Program

    The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) First Responder Technologies (R-Tech) program often requires the collection of personal information and video recordings of first responder research volunteers in support of operational testing, evaluation, demonstration, and outreach activities. This privacy impact assessment (PIA) discusses the risks associated with the use of volunteers to test first responder technologies that are otherwise not privacy sensitive.

  • DHS/S&T/PIA-019 Iris and Face Technology Demonstration and Evaluation

    DHS/S&T/PIA-019 Iris and Face Technology Demonstration and Evaluation

  • DHS/S&T/PIA-021 Cell All

    DHS/S&T/PIA-021 Cell All

  • DHS/S&T/PIA-022 Biodefense Knowledge Management System

    DHS/S&T/PIA-022 Biodefense Knowledge Management System

  • DHS/S&T/PIA-024 Rapid DNA System

    DHS/S&T/PIA-024 Rapid DNA System

  • DHS/S&T/PIA-025 Gaming System Monitoring and Analysis Effort

    DHS/S&T/PIA-025 Gaming System Monitoring and Analysis Effort

  • DHS/S&T/PIA-026 Robotic Aircraft for Public Safety (RAPS) Project

    DHS/S&T/PIA-026 Robotic Aircraft for Public Safety (RAPS) Project

  • DHS/S&T/PIA-029 Data Collection for the Centralized Hostile Intent Project

    The Centralized Hostile Intent (CHI) program within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) collects video images of trained actors posing as passengers, as well as members of the traveling public at the Theodore Francis Green Memorial State Airport in Providence, Rhode Island. The Centralized Hostile Intent program goals are to assess whether behavioral indicators of malicious intent can be observed by trained professionals (e.g., TSA Behavior Detection Officers) from video images in a remote environment. Remote screening offers the potential for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to expand the scale of its behavior detection program without correspondingly increasing staffing costs. The data collection involves collection of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in the form of video images that include the face and body of trained actors and members of the traveling public. This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) addresses privacy issues associated with the collection of the video data for the Centralized Hostile Intent (CHI) program and updates the previously published PIA for “Project Hostile Intent Technology.”

  • DHS/S&T/PIA-030- Air Entry/Exit Re-engineering (AEER) Counting and Measuring (C&M) Project

    DHS/S&T/PIA-030- Air Entry/Exit Re-engineering (AEER) Counting and Measuring (C&M) Project