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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-USSS-PIA-001 - Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI)

    The US Secret Service (USSS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) co-sponsor and manage the Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI) reporting website, which is a tool for telecommunications carriers to report a breach of its customer proprietary network information to law enforcement. The USSS and the FBI conducted this Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) because the CPNI reporting website contains personally identifiable information (PII).

  • DHS-TSA-PIA-045 Security Threat Assessment for Conditional Access to Sensitive Security Information

    The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) occasionally discloses Sensitive Security Information (SSI) to individuals so that they can assist with the design, implementation, or review of TSA security programs, techniques, or technology, or when needed to understand TSA functions. TSA may conclude that the individuals must undergo a security threat assessment (STA) as a condition of being granted access to the SSI. This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) was conducted because TSA will collect, maintain, and disseminate information in identifiable form on members of the public in order to conduct the STA.

  • DHS-TSA-PIA-026 Alien Flight Student Program

    The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) conducts Security Threat Assessments (STA) on individuals who are not U.S. citizens or nationals and other individuals designated by TSA seeking flight instruction or recurrent training from Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)-certified flight training providers. TSA previously conducted a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) and PIA Updates for the Alien Flight Student Program (AFSP). TSA conducted this PIA because several updates to AFSP have been made, including: 1) TSA performs recurrent vetting of covered individuals; 2) The Defense Attaché collects biographic information and creates a record in AFSP about foreign military pilots endorsed by the Department of Defense (DoD) for flight training in the United States; and 3) TSA has submitted an updated National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) schedule to change records retention to 80 years in order to permit TSA to comply with a requirement that it re-use fingerprints for recurrent flight training during the life of the covered individual.  This PIA should be read as a stand-alone document.  Upon publication of this PIA, the previous PIA and PIA Updates for AFSP will be retired.

  • Fee Waiver or Claims Membership in a Preferential Fee Category (MuckRock)

    Fee Waiver or Claims Membership in a Preferential Fee Category (MuckRock)

  • National Customer Service Center

    USCIS operates the National Customer Service Center (NCSC) to provide nationwide telephonic assistance to customers calling with immigration service and benefit inquiries.  The NCSC uses a wide variety of systems, applications, and tools as part of its call center infrastructure to ensure calls are queued and processed as quickly as possible.  This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) discusses the USCIS systems used to operate NCSC, and evaluates the privacy risks and mitigation associated with the collection, use, and maintenance of Personally Identifiable Information (PII).

  • DHS/S&T/PIA–027 S&T Test Data

    An integral part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T)’s mission is to conduct research, development, testing, and evaluation (RDT&E) on technologies or topics related to improving homeland security and combating terrorism. Some S&T RDT&E activities receive datasets from other DHS Components or partner agencies to test, evaluate, and provide feedback on certain research topics, technologies, equipment, and capabilities related to S&T’s mission. S&T published this Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) to establish baseline protections for test data provided by other DHS Components, other government agencies, or other data sharing partners. RDT&E test data that are covered by the PIA are listed in the appendix. The appendix will be updated as new projects, programs, systems, or other types of information collection are identified.

  • DHS-FEMA-PIA – 037 National Responder Support Camp (NRSC)

    The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) established the National Responder Support Camp (RSC) initiative to support FEMA’s mission to improve its ability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards. RSCs are contractor-built and operated structures that are assembled (as requested) during emergencies and disasters to provide shelter, food, and other basic needs to emergency response personnel. FEMA published this Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) for the initiative because FEMA collects Personally Identifiable Information (PII) from the emergency response personnel to provide secured access to the RSC.

  • DPIAC Charter & Notice of Establishment

    The DHS Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee (DPIAC) provides advice at the request of the Secretary of Homeland Security and the DHS Chief Privacy Officer on programmatic, policy, operational, administrative, and technological issues within DHS that relate to personally identifiable information, as well as data integrity and other privacy-related matters. The DPIAC was established by the Secretary of Homeland Security under the authority of 6 U.S.C. section 451 and operates in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) (5 U.S.C. App)

  • DHS-FEMA-PIA-038(a) Virginia Systems Repository (VSR): Data Repositories

    The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)’s Office of Response and Recovery (OR&R) Recovery Directorate, develops, maintains, and supports the Virginia Systems Repository (VSR). VSR is a multifaceted system that develops and deploys applications and services to support the rapidly changing needs of FEMA programs. VSR also has data repository capabilities that systematically ingest and store information from various FEMA source systems for the explicit purpose of replication and use by VSR applications. FEMA conducted this Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) to document the retrieval, replication, and storage of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) held in VSR data repositories.

  • Identification of Disaster Code Declaration

    Identification of Disaster Code Declaration