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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.

  • OPS FOIA Logs

    This log contains incoming Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to the Office of Operations Coordination (OPS).

  • DHS-FEMA-PIA-034(a) Electronic Fingerprint System

    DHS-FEMA-PIA-034(a) Electronic Fingerprint System

  • Privacy Compliance Review for the Analytical Framework for Intelligence

    The DHS Privacy Office and CBP issued a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) and System of Records Notice (SORN) for AFI in 2012. Due to the sensitive nature of the AFI system, including its search and aggregation capabilities, AFI was developed in coordination with the DHS Privacy Office to minimize privacy risks. These privacy risks are identified and discussed in the 2012 AFI PIA.  The DHS Privacy Office also required that AFI undergo a Privacy Compliance Review (PCR) within 12 months of the system’s operational deployment. The objective of this PCR is to assess compliance with the existing compliance documentation published by AFI and ensure the privacy protections in the PIA are followed. This is the first PCR on the AFI system. Between August 2013 and May 2014, the DHS Privacy Office Oversight Team assessed these privacy protections.

  • DHS/USCIS/PIA-013 Fraud Detection and National Security Data System (FDNS-DS)

    U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) created the Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate (FDNS) to strengthen the integrity of the nation’s immigration system, and to ensure that immigration benefits are not granted to individuals that may pose a threat to national security and/or public safety. In addition, FDNS is responsible for detecting, deterring, and combating immigration benefit fraud.  USCIS is updating and reissuing this Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA), originally published on July 30, 2012 as DHS/USCIS/PIA-013(a), to include FDNS’s sharing with law enforcement agencies, and include the DHS/USCIS/ICE/CBP-001-Alien File, Index and National File Tracking System of Records, published November 21, 3013 at 78 FR 69864 as coverage for initiatives under this PIA.

  • DHS-ALL-PIA-048 Foreign Access Management System

    The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Under Secretary for Management (USM), Office of the Chief Security Officer (OCSO), Center for International Safety and Security (CISS) manages the Foreign Access Management (FAM) program that vets foreign nationals,foreign entities, and certain United States Persons (USPER) that seek access to DHS personnel, information, facilities, programs, or systems. This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) update reflects the end of the Foreign Access Management Enterprise (FAME) Pilot program and the end of the agreement between OCSO/CISS and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC). 

  • DHS-ICE-PIA-040 FALCON-Roadrunner

    The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) has deployed a new information system called FALCON-Roadrunner, which is a module of the larger HSI FALCON environment.  This system generates investigative leads and conducts trend analysis to identify illicit procurement networks, terrorist groups, and hostile nations attempting to illegally obtain U.S. military products; sensitive dual-use technology; weapons of mass destruction (WMD); or chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear materials. FALCON-Roadrunner gives HSI investigators and analysts the ability to perform research, and generate leads for investigations of export violations within the jurisdiction of HSI.  FALCON-Roadrunner analyzes trade, law enforcement, financial, and screening data across large, disparate datasets to identify statistically anomalous trade transactions that may warrant investigation of export violations. This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) was necessary because FALCON-Roadrunner accesses and stores Personally Identifiable Information (PII) retrieved from data systems owned by DHS and other government agencies, as well as commercially and publicly available data. 

  • DHS-ALL-PIA-045 Loaned Executive Program

    DHS’s Private Sector Office (PSO) manages the Department-wide Loaned Executive Program (LEP).  The LEP is a special unpaid opportunity for executive-level private sector, academia, and cyber security experts to share their expertise with DHS. Through the LEP, DHS seeks innovative solutions to its homeland security challenges. DHS conducted this Privacy Impact Assessment because the LEP collects Personally Identifiable Information from members of the public.

  • DHS-FEMA-PIA – 039 Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration Risk Insurance Division Underwriting and Claims Operation Review Tool

    The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)’s Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration (FIMA) Risk Insurance Division (RID) owns and operates the Underwriting and Claims Operation Review Tool (“U-CORT” or “Tool”).  U-CORT is a modernization of previously manual oversight mechanisms to improve the management of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) underwriting and claim loss adjustment process. This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) documents how U-CORT collects, uses, disseminates, and maintains Personally Identifiable Information (PII) of NFIP policy holders associated with underwriting and claim operation reviews.

  • DHS/ALL/PIA-014 Personal Identity Verification/Identity Management System (PIV/IDMS)

    The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is updating the Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) Update, issued on June 18, 2009, to reflect changes in Departmental requirements and enhanced interoperability with US-VISIT Automated Biometric Identification System (IDENT) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS), DHS Component Physical Access Control Systems (PACS), DHS Component Active Directories, as well as issuance of PIV compatible credentials to visitors to DHS.

  • CISA FOIA Logs

    CISA FOIA Logs