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.
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DHS/ALL/PIA-086 DHS Counterintelligence Program
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Counterintelligence (CI) Program is a Department-wide effort designed to detect, deter, and disrupt foreign intelligence threats directed at the United States. CI encompasses those activities that identify, deceive, exploit, disrupt, or protect against espionage, other intelligence activities, sabotage, or assassinations conducted for or on behalf of foreign powers, organizations, or persons, or their agents (including transnational criminal organizations and drug trafficking organizations conducting intelligence-related activities), or international terrorist organizations or activities, collectively hereinafter referred to as foreign intelligence entities (FIE).
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DHS/ICE/PIA-057 Angel Watch Program
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operates the ICE Angel Watch Program (AWP). The AWP mission is to proactively identify individuals who have been convicted of sexual crimes against children and have upcoming travel to a foreign country, in order to notify law enforcement and/or border security in the destination country.
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DHS/S&T/PIA-040 Data Analytics Technology Center (DA-TC)
S&T is conducting this Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) to identify and mitigate privacy risks associated with DA-TC collecting, maintaining, and sharing personally identifiable information (PII) during research, development, testing, and evaluation (RDT&E) of advanced analytic and computational capabilities. This PIA also assesses the privacy risks associated with the two distinct computing environments: a physical on-premise environment and off-premise cloud environments.
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DHS/CBP/PIA-053 U.S. Border Patrol Digital Forensics Programs
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) conducts searches of electronic devices to identify violations of the laws CBP enforces and administers, including laws relating to the detection and apprehension of illicit goods and individuals entering and exiting the United States in between ports of entry (POE). Depending on the circumstances, CBP conducts searches of electronic devices pursuant to different legal authorities. CBP is publishing this Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) update to analyze the privacy risks of expanded digital forensic tools and an enterprise-wide solution for managing and analyzing certain types of metadata that USBP collects from electronic devices across its digital forensic collection activities. In addition, this updated PIA will clarify that searches may be conducted pursuant to border search authority.
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DHS/CWMD/PIA-001 Medical and Public Health Information Sharing Environment (MPHISE)
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office (CWMD) maintains the Medical and Public Health Information Sharing Environment (MPHISE) system. MPHISE is designed to provide a secure networking capability between DHS personnel and designated federal, state, local, territorial, tribal, and private sector medical and public health partners. This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) supports MPHISE to be used as a platform to enable information sharing across the extended medical and public health community in response to any chemical, biological, radiologic, and/or nuclear threat. Standard sharing includes anonymized health information, but in some cases, to be defined below, non-anonymized health data and sensitive personally identifiable information (SPII) will be shared.
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DHS/FPS/PIA-001 Federal Protective Service Dispatch and Incident Record Management Systems
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD), Federal Protective Service (FPS) is updating the Dispatch and Incident Record Management Systems (DIRMS) Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA).
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DHS/ALL/PIA-085 Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS)
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is leading efforts and coordinating across the federal government testing and evaluating technologies used to detect, identify, monitor, and, if needed, mitigate Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) that pose a credible threat to covered facilities, assets, and other missions authorized to the it by law. These protective technologies are referred to as Counter-UAS (C-UAS). This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) discusses measures taken to mitigate privacy risks and protect personally identifiable information (PII) during DHS’s use of C-UAS technologies during testing, evaluation, and operational deployment.
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DHS/ALL/PIA-080 CBP and ICE DNA Collection
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), as federal law enforcement agencies, are statutorily mandated to collect deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) from certain individuals who come into their custody. CBP and ICE began to collect DNA from persons who are detained under the authority of the United States consistent with the DNA Fingerprint Act of 2005.1 To support this effort, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) Laboratory (“FBI Laboratory”) provides Buccal Collection Kits to both CBP and ICE. CBP and ICE use these kits collect the DNA via buccal cheek swab and send the DNA samples to the FBI, which in turn process them and store the resulting DNA profile in the FBI’s Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) National DNA Index System (NDIS) (CODIS/NDIS). NDIS contains DNA profiles contributed by federal and state agencies and participating forensic laboratories. CBP and ICE are conducting this joint Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) to provide notice to the public of this biometric collection and to analyze the associated privacy risks. DHS is reissuing this PIA, originally published January 3, 2020, to note that CBP Office of Field Operations is expanding the minimum age for DNA collection from 18 to 14. July 2020
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DHS/CBP/PIA-064 Credibility Assessment and Polygraph Services (CAPS)
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), Credibility Assessment Division (CAD) administers polygraph examinations as part of the hiring process for CBP Officers and Agents to assist in determining suitability for employment, and in support of internal and counterintelligence investigations. CAD uses the Credibility Assessment and Polygraph Services (CAPS) system in support of its polygraph examination program. CBP is conducting this Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) on CAPS because the system ingests, uses, and maintains personally identifiable information (PII) from members of the public who are candidates for law enforcement positions with CBP or a partner agency.
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DHS/OBIM/PIA-003 Technical Reconciliation Analysis Classification System (TRACS)
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Office of Biometric Identity Management (OBIM) operates the Technical Reconciliation Analysis Classification System (TRACS), an information management tool used for reporting and analysis of the Automated Biometric Identification System (IDENT) records to support OBIM’s information sharing coordination activities with external agencies and foreign partners. These partners are charged with national security, immigration, or law enforcement responsibilities. OBIM is retiring and reissuing the previously published Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) to identify new functionality supported by TRACS.