August 11, 2020
DHS SBIR Success Story "Field Detection and Analysis for Fire Gasses"
This success story highlights the DHS SBIR company N5 Sensors, of Rockville, Maryland, who developed an ultra-small, low-cost hazardous gas and particulate matter detector using novel chip-scale chemical sensor technology that can be used by firefighters.
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August 11, 2020
DHS/CBP/PIA-012 – CBP Portal (E3) to ENFORCE/IDENT
CBP is updating this Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) to notify the public of enhancements to e3 impacting personally identifiable information (PII), including: the new Border Enforcement Secondary Tool (BEST) for conducting secondary inspections at United States Border Patrol (USBP) Checkpoints; Subject Identification Tracking Devices (SID) to help track and log custodial actions of aliens in USBP custody; information technology modernization of the e3 system, known as “e3 NextGen;” and various new forms to ensure the safety and welfare of those in CBP custody.
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August 11, 2020
DHS/CISA/PIA-035 National Cybersecurity Protection System (NCPS) - Core Infrastructure
This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) provides an in-depth analysis of the collection of information through the operation of the NCPS Core Infrastructure. CISA is in the process of developing separate PIAs to document the privacy implications for each of the NCPS’s capability areas (Intrusion Prevention, Intrusion Detection, Analytics, Core Infrastructure, and Information Sharing). Once published, these PIAs will eventually replace the currently published DHS/CISA/PIA-026 National Cybersecurity Protection System (NCPS).
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August 10, 2020
DHS SBIR Success Story "Do Not Spoof Services"
This success story highlights the DHS SBIR company Iluma Labs of Plano, Texas, who developed an audio authentication technology that secures voice communications by verifying the identities of inbound callers in real-time.
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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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