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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.

  • Automated Wait Time Technology

    DHS/TSA/PIA-037 - Automated Wait Time Technology (AWT)

  • Performance and Results Information System (PARIS)

    The TSA's Performance and Results Information System (PARIS) is a database used for maintaining information associated with TSA’s regulatory investigations, security incidents, and enforcement actions, as well as for recording the details of security incidents involving passenger and property screening. PARIS maintains personally identifiable information (PII) about individuals, including witnesses, involved in security incidents or regulatory enforcement activities. PARIS also creates and maintains a list of individuals who, based upon their involvement in security incidents of sufficient severity or frequency, are disqualified from receiving expedited screening for some period of time or permanently. The purpose of this Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) is to inform the public of changes in the use of PARIS and any resulting impact to personal privacy.

  • DHS/TSA/PIA-039 - TSA Encounter Analysis Branch

    The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A), Encounter Analysis Branch (EAB) seeks to improve TSA’s ability to identify potential risks to transportation security. Initial efforts by the EAB involved discovering and analyzing previously unknown links or patterns among individuals who undergo a TSA security threat assessment (STA), passengers identified as a match to a government watch list, and passengers who do not present acceptable identification documents to access the sterile area of an airport whose identity cannot be verified through the identity verification process. TSA is updating the EAB Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) to reflect operational changes to the program to include new investigative steps that may be taken in performing security threat assessment reviews on transportation sector workers and TSA Pre✓® participants.

  • Port Authority of New York/New Jersey Secure Worker Access Consortium Vetting Services

    The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will conduct terrorism watch list checks of workers at Port Authority of New York/New Jersey (PANYNJ) facilities and job sites, including critical infrastructure such as airports, marine ports, bus terminals, rail transit facilities, bridges, tunnels, and real estate such as the World Trade Center memorial site. TSA will also conduct terrorism watch list checks of individuals identified by PANYNJ as requiring such checks for access to sensitive information, and for workers at facilities and job sites of PANYNJ regional partners. Results of the checks will not be reported to PANYNJ, but instead will be forwarded to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Terrorist Screening Center (TSC). This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) is conducted pursuant to the E-Government Act of 2002 because personally identifiable information (PII) will be collected for the conduct of terrorism watch list checks of workers at PANYNJ facilities and job sites.

  • DHS/TSA/PIA 041 TSA Pre Check Application Program

    DHS/TSA/PIA-041 - TSA Pre-Check Application Program

  • DHS/TSA/PIA-047 TSA Contact Center

    DHS/TSA/PIA-047 TSA Contact Center

  • DHS/USCG/PIA-001 Homeport Internet Portal

    DHS/USCG/PIA-001 Homeport Internet Portal

  • DHS/USCG/PIA-002 USCG "Biometrics at Sea"

    DHS/USCG/PIA-002 USCG "Biometrics at Sea"

  • DHS/USCG/PIA-004 USCG Law Enforcement Information Data Base Pathfinder

    DHS/USCG/PIA-004 USCG Law Enforcement Information Data Base Pathfinder

  • DHS/USCG/PIA-005 Maritime Analytic Support System (MASS)

    The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) United States Coast Guard (USCG) has developed the Maritime Analytic Support System (MASS) as a platform with the means to access records that are part of the MASS System of Records (previously called the Maritime Awareness Global Network (MAGNet) System of Records). The system employs a combination of system software, database management software, and custom written software to support the execution of the eleven USCG statutory missions. The USCG is updating and replacing the original MAGNet Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) to establish MASS as the update to the MAGNet framework, and to describe the system’s use of personally identifiable information (PII) from members of the public.