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14 August 2007
[Federal Register: August 13, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 155)]
[Notices]
[Page 45255-45257]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Privacy Office; Published Privacy Impact Assessments on the Web
AGENCY: Privacy Office, Office of the Secretary, Department of Homeland
Security.
ACTION: Notice of publication of Privacy Impact Assessments.
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SUMMARY: The Privacy Office of the Department of Homeland Security is
making available fourteen (14) Privacy Impact Assessments on various
programs and systems in the Department. These assessments were approved
and published on the Privacy Office's Web site between April 1, 2007
and June 30, 2007.
DATES: The Privacy Impact Assessments will be available on the DHS Web
site until October 12, 2007, after which they may be obtained by
contacting the DHS Privacy Office (contact information below).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Hugo Teufel III, Chief Privacy
Officer, Department of Homeland Security, Mail Stop 0550, Washington,
DC 20528, or e-mail: pia@dhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Between April 1, 2007 and June 30, 2007, the
Chief Privacy Officer of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
approved and published fourteen (14) Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs)
on the DHS Privacy Office Web site, http://www.dhs.gov/privacy, under
the link for ``Privacy Impact Assessments.'' Below is a short summary
of each of those systems, indicating the DHS component responsible for
the system, and the date on which the PIA was approved. Additional
information can be found on the Web site or by contacting the Privacy
Office.
System: Verification Information System.
Component: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Date of approval: April 2, 2007.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) provides
immigration
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status verification for benefits determinations and employment
authorization through the Verification Division of USCIS. Presently,
two programs exist to implement this mandate: The Systematic Alien
Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program for government benefits
and the Employment Eligibility Verification/Basic Pilot Program for
private employer verification of employment authorization for all newly
hired employees. The Verification Information System (VIS), a composite
information system incorporating data from various DHS databases, is
the underlying information technology that supports these programs.
USCIS conducted this PIA to describe updates to VIS that will improve
the ability of USCIS to provide citizenship and immigration status
information to users of SAVE and Basic Pilot.
System: Automated Continuing Evaluation System Pilot.
Component: Management, Office of Security.
Date of approval: April 9, 2007.
DHS is working with the Department of Defense to pilot the
Automated Continuing Evaluation System (ACES). ACES conducts automated
records checks to identify new issues of security concern for DHS
personnel and contractors requiring a security clearance. During the
ACES pilot, DHS will assess the feasibility of using ACES for initial
and continuing evaluation of DHS security clearance holders. This PIA
is for the DHS implementation of the ACES Pilot.
System: 24 x 7 Incident Handling and Response Center.
Component: National Protection and Programs.
Date of approval: April 2, 2007.
The 24 x 7 Incident Handling and Response Center (``24 x 7'')
focuses on ways to gather cyber information prior to attacks and to use
that information to prevent attacks, protect computing infrastructure,
and respond/restore where attacks are successful. 24 x 7 serves as a
communication hub for the United States Computer Readiness Team (US-
CERT) program, issuing regular security and warning bulletins, serving
as a gateway for public contribution and outreach, and also serving as
a ticketing center through which tasks may be delegated out to the
various US-CERT programs.
System: Automated Identification Management System.
Component: US VISIT.
Date of approval: May 14, 2007.
In accordance with the guidance issued by the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) implementing the E-Government Act of 2002 to promote
program transparency and address any privacy concerns, this revision of
the United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology
(US-VISIT) Program PIA is prompted by the decommissioning of the
Automated Identification Management System (AIDMS).
System: ``Biometrics at Sea'' Mona Passage Proof of Concept Update.
Component: United States Coast Guard.
Date of approval: May 15, 2007.
This is an update to the previous PIA for the U.S. Coast Guard
(Coast Guard) Biometrics At Sea Mona Passage Proof of Concept, dated
November 3, 2006. This update describes new means by which the Coast
Guard will transmit information to the US-VISIT Automated Biometric
Identification System (IDENT) in connection with the Coast Guard
Biometrics At Sea Mona Pass Proof of Concept program. With the addition
of capabilities described in this update, the Coast Guard will be able
to transmit biometric data obtained from undocumented aliens that the
Coast Guard interdicts in the Mona Passage directly to US-VISIT via
secure, encrypted satellite communications for analysis against the
IDENT database. Biometric information to be searched against will no
longer be stored on the laptops. If there is a communications failure,
the Coast Guard may revert back to the ability to search biometric data
against the distributed IDENT data sets on stand-alone non-networked
secured laptop computers on board Coast Guard cutters more fully
described in the November 3, 2006 PIA.
System: Enumeration Services of the Automated Biometric
Identification System.
Component: US VISIT.
Date of approval: May 25, 2007.
The Automated Biometric Identification System (IDENT) is the
primary repository of biometric information held by DHS in connection
with its several and varied missions and functions, including but not
limited to: The enforcement of civil and criminal laws (including
immigration laws); investigations, inquiries, and proceedings in
connection with those missions and functions; and national security and
intelligence activities. IDENT is a centralized and dynamic DHS-wide
biometric database. The DHS US-VISIT program is publishing this PIA
update for the IDENT to describe the changes to IDENT required to
support enumeration services, a new service offering from IDENT.
Enumeration services generates a unique personal identifier, known as
an enumerator, for each individual for whom ten fingerprints and
minimal biographic data has been collected in IDENT. Within IDENT the
enumerator will be used to uniquely identify individuals and to link
and retrieve immigration and border management records with a single
identifier instead of multiple identifiers. This PIA has been conducted
because the addition of enumerator services constitutes a significant
change to IDENT.
System: USCIS Secure Information Management Service Pilot with
Inter-country Adoptions.
Component: United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Date of approval: May 24, 2007.
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) prepared
a PIA for the Secure Information Management Service (SIMS) Pilot. Using
the inter-country adoption caseload as a ``proof-of-concept'' for SIMS,
this pilot will: (a) Demonstrate the case processing capability of the
case management system, (b) verify that an enumerator (unique
identifier based on biometrics) supports the USCIS person-centric
business process, and (c) verify that the case management system can be
used to view digitized files. This PIA covers the initial deployment of
the SIMS and will be supplemented accordingly as additional USCIS
applications and system functionalities are added to the SIMS.
System: Chemical Security Assessment Tool Update.
Component: National Protection and Programs.
Date of approval: May 25, 2007.
This is an update to the previous Chemical Security Assessment Tool
(CSAT) PIA in order to describe the additional Web site functionality,
the new eligibility requirements for CSAT users, and the deployment of
the CSAT Help Desk. CSAT collects personally identifiable information
from CSAT users and/or CVI Web site users. Further, the CSAT Help Desk
may collect contact information from both CSAT users requesting basic
CSAT IT support or from the general public inquiring about the CSAT
program.
System: Department of Homeland Security General Contact Lists.
Component: Department Wide.
Date of approval: June 15, 2007.
Many DHS operations and projects collect a minimal amount of
contact information in order to distribute information and perform
various other administrative tasks. Department Headquarters has
conducted this
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privacy impact assessment because contact lists contain personally
identifiable information. Programs that follow the policies and
procedures outlined in this PIA are noted in the Appendix.
System: Protected Critical Infrastructure Information Management
System.
Component: National Protection and Programs.
Date of approval: June 20, 2007.
The Protected Critical Infrastructure Information (PCII) Program,
part of the DHS Infrastructure Partnerships Division, is an
information-protection tool that facilitates the sharing of PCII
between the government and the private sector. The Protected Critical
Infrastructure Information Management System is an Information
Technology system and the means by which PCII submissions from the
private sector will be cataloged. The PCII Program conducted this PIA
because PII from the submitting individuals is collected for contact
purposes.
System: USCIS Enterprise Service Bus.
Component: US Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Date of approval: June 22, 2007.
The USCIS Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) was developed by the USCIS
Office of Information Technology (OIT) to facilitate information
sharing and integration between USCIS systems, and across DHS
components and other agencies, such as the Department of State. The ESB
is a set of commercial off-the-shelf software that provides a
standardized infrastructure to connect to multiple systems and
services. This is a new infrastructure component within USCIS that will
be incrementally enhanced to provide support for multiple service
interfaces. This PIA will be updated to reflect those material changes.
System: USCIS Person Centric Query Service.
Component: US Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Date of approval: June 22, 2007.
The Rice/Chertoff Initiative is an information sharing initiative
between the Department of Homeland Security, USCIS and Department of
State (DOS), Bureau of Counselor Affairs to share immigration and visa
data between agencies. To support this information sharing initiative,
the USCIS OIT developed a new service called the Person Centric Query
(PCQ) Service that will improve the existing business information
sharing capabilities between DHS and DOS. The PCQ Service provides
authorized DHS/DOS users with a consolidated view of all information
about an individual in selected USCIS and DOS data bases. This new
service will improve efficiency of user searches, facilitate
information sharing, increase the quality and accuracy of the
underlying data, and increase the security of the information being
shared among systems.
System: Homeland Security Information Network Communities of
Interest.
Component: Operations.
Date of approval: June 22, 2007.
The Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN) is designed to
facilitate the secure integration and interoperability of information
sharing resources amongst federal, state, local, tribal, private sector
commercial, and other non-governmental stakeholders involved in
identifying and preventing terrorism as well as in undertaking incident
management activities. As part of the information sharing efforts HSIN
supports, HSIN has established different Communities of Interest within
the HSIN network.
System: Central Index System.
Component: US Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Date of approval: June 22, 2007.
The DHS USCIS maintains the Central Index System (CIS), a database
system originally developed by the legacy Immigration and
Naturalization Service. CIS contains information on the status of 57
million applicants/petitioners seeking immigration benefits to include:
lawful permanent residents, naturalized citizens, U.S. border crossers,
aliens who illegally entered the U.S., aliens who have been issued
employment authorization documents, individuals who petitioned for
benefits on behalf of family members, and other individuals subject to
the provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act. This PIA
addresses the current status of CIS, and will be updated accordingly as
additional USCIS applications and system functionalities are added to
CIS.
Dated: August 6, 2007.
Hugo Teufel III,
Chief Privacy Officer.
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