July 31, 2020
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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July 30, 2020
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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July 30, 2020
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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July 29, 2020
NGFR - Birmingham Shaken Fury Operational Experimentation Playbook
DHS S&T hosted the NGFR – Birmingham Shaken Fury Operational Experimentation (OpEx) on August 21-22, 2019, at Legion Field Stadium in Birmingham, Alabama, in partnership with regional public safety agencies and technology providers.
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July 28, 2020
Attorney General William P. Barr’s letter to Acting Secretary Chad F. Wolf on DACA
Attorney General William P. Barr’s letter to Acting Secretary Chad F. Wolf on DACA, received on June 30, 2020.
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July 28, 2020
Reconsideration of the June 15, 2012 Memo Entitled "Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion with Respect to Individuals Who Came to the United States as Children"
On June 15, 2012, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano established the policy known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) through a memorandum entitled “Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion with Respect to Individuals Who Came to the United States as Children.” Ever since, the policy has been subject to substantial controversy. In recent years, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke and Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen concluded that the DACA policy should be fully rescinded and issued additional memoranda in 2017 and 2018, respectively, to effect that decision.
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July 28, 2020
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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July 24, 2020
DHS Section 803 Reports to Congress
Section 803 of the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2002 requires the DHS Privacy Office to report quarterly on the following activities: number and types of privacy reviews of Department actions undertaken; type of advice provided and the response given to such advice; and number and nature of privacy complaints received by DHS for alleged violations, along with a summary of the disposition of such complaints.
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July 24, 2020
DHS Office of Inspector General Report: DHS' Process for Responding to FOIA and Congressional Requests
DHS Office of Inspector General descriptive report regarding DHS' Process for Responding to FOIA and Congressional Requests
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July 24, 2020
DHS/ALL/PIA-080 CBP and ICE DNA Collection
The 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 will begin to collect DNA from persons who are detained under the authority of the United States consistent with the DNA Fingerprint Act of 2005. To support this effort, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) Laboratory (“FBI Laboratory”) will provide Buccal Collection Kits to both CBP and ICE. CBP and ICE will use these kits collect the DNA via buccal cheek swab and will send the DNA samples to the FBI, which in turn will 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 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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