Published Privacy Impact Assessments on the Web, 51468-51473 [2010-20629]

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• Office of the Secretary
• DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 161 (Friday, August 20, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51468-51473]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-20629]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Office of the Secretary


Published Privacy Impact Assessments on the Web

AGENCY: Privacy Office, DHS.

ACTION: Notice of publication of Privacy Impact Assessments.

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SUMMARY: The Privacy Office of the Department of Homeland Security 
(DHS) is making available thirty-five 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 October 
1, 2009 and May 31, 2010.

DATES: The Privacy Impact Assessments will be available on the DHS Web 
site until October 19, 2010, after which they may be obtained by 
contacting the DHS Privacy Office (contact information below).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mary Ellen Callahan, Chief Privacy 
Officer, Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC 20528, or e-
mail: pia@dhs.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Between October 1, 2009, and May 31, 2010, 
the

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Chief Privacy Officer of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) 
approved and published thirty-five Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) on 
the DHS Privacy Office Web site, https://www.dhs.gov/privacy, under the 
link for ``Privacy Impact Assessments.'' These PIAs cover thirty-five 
separate DHS programs. Below is a short summary of the programs, 
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: IDOCX System.
    Component: Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
    Date of approval: October 14, 2009.
    IDOCX is an information system owned by Immigration and Customs 
Enforcement (ICE). The system supports the collection, organization, 
and analysis of paper and electronic documents for law enforcement and 
other programmatic or administrative purposes. ICE conducted this PIA 
because IDOCX collects, analyzes, and stores personally identifiable 
information (PII).
    System: Five Country Joint Enrollment and Information-Sharing 
Project.
    Component: United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator 
Technology.
    Date of approval: November 2, 2009.
    The United States Visitor and Immigration Status Indicator 
Technology (US-VISIT) Program of DHS published this PIA to cover a new, 
systematic and long-term information-sharing project with trusted 
partner nations for immigration purposes. The Five Country Conference 
(FCC) is a forum for co-operation on migration and border security, 
between the countries of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United 
Kingdom, and the United States. The FCC Information-Sharing Project is 
a partnership among all the members of the FCC that is aligned with the 
DHS mission as well as the US-VISIT Strategic Plan because it will help 
identify individuals whose identities were previously unknown and by 
doing so, improve national security in support of DHS-wide initiatives 
and other mission goals.
    System: Travel and Employment Authorization Listings.
    Component: United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.
    Date of approval: November 3, 2009.
    The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) 
developed the Travel and Employment Authorization Listings (TEAL) 
system to streamline access to relevant information during the 
adjudication of certain benefits. TEAL consolidates immigration 
information about applicants from selected USCIS and DHS systems to 
provide greater accessibility to immigration information necessary to 
determine benefit eligibility. USCIS is conducting this PIA because 
TEAL retrieves PII from USCIS and DHS systems.
    System: Bond Management Information System Web Version Interface 
and Collection Update.
    Component: Immigration and Customs Enforcment.
    Date of approval: November 20, 2009.
    The Bond Management Information System/Web Version (BMIS Web) is an 
immigration bond management database used primarily by the Office of 
Financial Management (OFM) at ICE. The basic function of BMIS Web is to 
record and maintain for financial management purposes the immigration 
bonds that are posted for aliens involved in removal proceedings. The 
PIA for BMIS Web was originally published in August 2008. Since then, 
the system interfaces and the scope of the information collected have 
changed, thus necessitating an update to the PIA.
    System: Boating Accident Report Database.
    Component: United States Coast Guard.
    Date of approval: November 12, 2009.
    The United States Coast Guard (USCG) developed the Boating Accident 
Report Database (BARD) to serve as a receptacle for boating accident 
report data, submitted by each of the 56 State and territorial 
reporting authorities as required by 46 USC 6102. USCG conducted this 
PIA because the boating accident report data contains PII.
    System: Refugees, Asylum, and Parole System and the Asylum Pre-
Screening System.
    Component: United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.
    Date of approval: November 24, 2009.
    USCIS maintains the Refugees, Asylum, and Parole System and the 
Asylum Pre-Screening System (RAPS APSS). Both systems, originally 
developed by the former Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), 
comprise the USCIS' Asylum program and are used to capture information 
pertaining to asylum applications, credible fear and reasonable fear 
screening processes, and applications for benefits provided by Section 
203 of the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act 
(NACARA Sec.  203). USCIS conducted PIA because both RAPS and APSS 
contain PII.
    System: Password Issuance and Control System.
    Component: Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
    Date of approval: November 24, 2009.
    The Password Issuance and Control System is used by ICE and USCIS 
for password management and to manage user access to ICE and USCIS 
information systems. ICE conducted this PIA because the system collects 
PII.
    System: Financial Disclosure Management.
    Component: Office of General Counsel.
    Date of approval: November 24, 2009.
    The Ethics Division of the Office of General Counsel of DHS 
published an update to the PIA for the Financial Disclosure Management 
System (FDMS) dated September 30, 2008. FDMS is a Web-based initiative 
developed to provide a mechanism for individuals to complete, sign, 
review, and file financial disclosure reports, first required by Title 
I of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978. This update extends coverage 
to the PII collected by Executive Branch Confidential Financial 
Disclosure Reports (OGE Form 450).
    System: Recruit Analysis and Tracking System.
    Component: United States Coast Guard.
    Date of approval: November 30, 2009.
    The DHS United States Coast Guard Recruiting Command operates the 
Recruit Analysis and Tracking System (RATS) to support the USCG 
recruiting mission. The system gathers and distributes recruiting 
leads, tracks recruit progression, prepares accession forms, processes 
reservations for enlisted and officer candidates, manages the mission 
plan, provides point-in-time projections, and reports on quality, 
quantity, and diversity statistics for the recruiting effort. USCG 
conducted this PIA because RATS collects and retains PII.
    System: H1N1 Medical Care for DHS Employees.
    Component: Office of Health Affairs.
    Date of approval: December 1, 2009.
    The DHS Office of Health Affairs (OHA) issued Standard Operating 
Procedures (SOP) to set forth requirements for DHS Components to 
provide medical care to DHS Mission Critical and Emergency Essential 
employees located in remote or medically austere environments who 
either present with influenza-like symptoms, or have been exposed to a 
probable case of H1N1 influenza. The SOP will remain in effect for the 
duration of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)--declared 
public health emergency with respect to H1N1. OHA is conducted this PIA

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because the SOP involves the collection of PII.
    System: Student & Exchange Visitor Information.
    Component: Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
    Date of approval: December 4, 2009.
    ICE is developing the Student & Exchange Visitor Information (SEVIS 
II) as a modernization effort to address limitations in the original 
SEVIS immigration benefits tracking tool. SEVIS II is an information 
system that tracks and monitors students, exchange visitors, and their 
dependents that are in the U.S. on F, M, or J classes of admission 
throughout the duration of approved participation within the U.S. 
education system or designated exchange visitor program. SEVIS also 
maintains information on the schools, exchange visitor program 
sponsors, and their representatives. ICE conducted this PIA to document 
publicly the privacy protections that are in place within the system 
because SEVIS II collects, maintains, and provides PII in the execution 
of its mission.
    System: Alien Flight Student Program.
    Component: Transportation Security Administration.
    Date of approval: December 4, 2009.
    The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) updated the PIA 
used by the Alien Flight Student Program (AFSP) to conduct security 
threat assessments (STAs). TSA issued this update to expand the covered 
population required to undergo STAs to include candidates seeking 
recurrent flight training. The AFSP PIA was published initially on June 
18, 2004, and subsequently amended on December 22, 2006. The December 
22, 2006 PIA remains in effect to the extent that it is consistent with 
this update, and should be read together with this update.
    System: Stakeholder Engagement Initiative: Customer Relationship 
Management.
    Component: DHS Wide.
    Date of approval: December 10, 2009.
    The Office of the White House Liaison and the Office of Policy, in 
coordination with the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, are 
developing the Customer Relationship Management (CRM), a data 
management tool being employed by the Stakeholder Engagement Initiative 
(SEI). The system will be an online database which manages information 
on external stakeholders and tracks the interactions between these 
individuals and DHS. This PIA is being conducted because PII will be 
collected and maintained on a variety of stakeholders.
    System: 287(g) Program Database.
    Component: Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
    Date of approval: December 28, 2009.
    The ICE Office of State and Local Coordination maintains a database 
for the 287(g) Program, under which ICE delegates Federal immigration 
enforcement authorities to State and local law enforcement agencies. 
The database is used to track the progress of delegation agreements 
between ICE and State and local law enforcement agencies and the 
vetting and training of individual State and local law enforcement 
officers who are candidates for 287(g) authority. ICE conducted this 
PIA because the 287(g) Program database collects, uses, and maintains 
PII.
    System: Enforcement Integrated Database.
    Component: Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
    Date of approval: January 14, 2010.
    The Enforcement Integrated Database (EID) is a DHS shared common 
database repository for several DHS law enforcement and homeland 
security applications. EID captures and maintains information related 
to the investigation, arrest, booking, detention, and removal of 
persons encountered during immigration and criminal law enforcement 
investigations and operations conducted by ICE and Customs and Border 
Protection (CBP). The majority of records in EID are predicated on 
ongoing DHS law enforcement activity. ICE conducted this PIA to provide 
additional notice of the existence of the EID and the applications that 
access EID, and to publicly document the privacy protections that are 
in place for the system.
    System: ICEGangs Database.
    Component: Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
    Date of approval: January 15, 2010.
    ICE uses a gang-tracking software application used for 
investigative, analytical, and statistical recording and tracking of 
gang members and associates, gangs, and their activities called 
ICEGangs. The ICEGangs database supports information sharing on gang 
members and activities among participating law enforcement agencies. 
ICE conducted this PIA because the system collects and maintains PII.
    System: Immigration and Customs Enforcement Child Exploitation 
Tracking System.
    Component: Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
    Date of approval: January 19, 2010.
    The Immigration and Customs Enforcement Child Exploitation Tracking 
System (ICE-CETS) is a centralized information repository that assists 
law enforcement in conducting child exploitation investigations. The 
ICE-CETS database allows information about related investigations to be 
shared and tied together to reduce redundant investigative work. ICE 
conducted this PIA because PII is maintained in ICE-CETS.
    System: Sensor Web.
    Component: Science and Technology Directorate.
    Date of approval: January 20, 2010.
    The Sensor Web project is a research and development effort funded 
by DHS Science and Technology (S&T) Office of Small Business Innovation 
Research (SBIR) that seeks to develop and test the effectiveness of a 
smart sensor system for potential law enforcement and first responder 
applications. The technologies being tested--video recording technology 
and analytic tools to interpret and process that video--are 
technologies that potentially impact the privacy of individuals, both 
during the tests and in future live settings. S&T conducted this PIA to 
assess the immediate privacy impacts of conducting the tests as well as 
the more general privacy impacts of the technology itself.
    System: Haiti Social Media Disaster Monitoring Initiative.
    Component: Office of Operations Coordination and Planning.
    Date of approval: January 21, 2010.
    The Office of Operations Coordination and Planning (OPS), National 
Operations Center (NOC), launched a Haiti Social Media Disaster 
Monitoring Initiative (Initiative) to assist the DHS, and its 
components involved in the response, recovery, and rebuilding effort 
resulting from the recent earthquake and after-effects in Haiti. The 
NOC used this vehicle to fulfill its statutory responsibility to 
provide situational awareness and establish a common operating picture 
for the Federal Government, and for those State, local, and Tribal 
governments, as appropriate, assisting with the response, recovery, and 
rebuilding effort in Haiti. While this Initiative was not designed to 
collect PII, OPS conducted this PIA because the Initiative could 
potentially involve information received in an identifiable form. This 
PIA was effective for 90 days and expired in May 2010.
    System: IdeaFactory.
    Component: DHS Wide.
    Date of approval: January 21, 2010.
    DHS deployed IdeaFactory, an Intranet Web-based tool that uses 
social media concepts to enable innovation and organizational 
collaboration within the DHS. IdeaFactory empowers employees to 
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innovative ideas for programs, processes, and technologies. This 
privacy impact assessment was conducted because the site collects 
limited PII on users submitting ideas.
    System: Enterprise Security System.
    Component: Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.
    Date of approval: January 25, 2010.
    The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) launched the 
Enterprise Security System (ESS) to standardize the process for 
students, contractors, visitors, and personnel to obtain access to 
FLETC facilities. FLETC conducted this PIA because ESS collects and 
maintains PII on students, visitors, and personnel.
    System: Academy Information System.
    Component: United States Coast Guard.
    Date of approval: January 26, 2010.
    The United States Coast Guard Academy (CGA) developed the Academy 
information System (ACADIS) transactional database system. ACADIS 
provides an information resource for the management of the CGA 
educational environment including the training and development of all 
future Coast Guard officers. To support this function, ACADIS processes 
transactional data for cadet military program records and various 
facility applications, manages applicant data to facilitate the 
admissions process, and warehouses data on cadets, prior cadets, 
faculty, and staff. USCG conducted this PIA because ACADIS collects and 
maintains PII.
    System: 2010 Winter Olympics Social Media Event Monitoring 
Initiative.
    Component: Office of Operations Coordination and Planning.
    Date of approval: February 10, 2010.
    The OPS, National Operations Center (NOC), launched a 2010 Winter 
Olympics Social Media Event Monitoring Initiative (Initiative) to 
assist the DHS and its components involved in the security, safety, and 
border control associated with the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, 
British Columbia (BC). The NOC used this vehicle to fulfill its 
statutory responsibility to provide situational awareness and establish 
a common operating picture for the Federal government, and for those 
State, local, and Tribal governments, as appropriate, assisting with 
the security, safety, and border control associated with the Olympics. 
While this Initiative was not designed to collect PII, OPS conducted 
this PIA because the Initiative could potentially involve information 
received in an identifiable form. This PIA was effective for 30 days 
and expired March 10, 2010.
    System: EINSTEIN 1: Michigan Proof of Concept.
    Component: National Protection and Programs Directorate.
    Date of approval: February 19, 2010.
    The DHS and the State of Michigan (Michigan) plan to engage in a 
12-month proof of concept to determine the benefits and issues 
presented by deploying the EINSTEIN 1 capability to Michigan government 
networks managed by the Michigan Department of Information Technology 
(MDIT). This PIA updates the previous EINSTEIN PIAs (EINSTEIN 1 PIA 
from 2004 and EINSTEIN 2 PIA from 2008, both available on https://www.dhs.gov/privacy) in one narrow aspect: the use of EINSTEIN 1 
technology in a proof of concept with Michigan. This PIA update 
addresses the privacy impacts of extending the current EINSTEIN 1 
functionality to Michigan in this specific proof of concept.
    System: Suspension and Debarment Case Management System.
    Component: Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
    Date of approval: February 19, 2010.
    The Suspension and Debarment Case Management System (SDCMS) is a 
secure, Web-based workflow management system maintained by the Office 
of Acquisition Management (OAQ) of the ICE that manages ICE's 
suspension and debarment process. The purpose of SDCMS is to provide an 
automated mechanism for managing and reporting on all suspension and 
debarment activities from receipt of referral through the expiration 
date of the suspension or debarment period. The information maintained 
in SDCMS may contain PII on Federal contractors being referred for 
suspension or debarment. ICE conducted this PIA because SDCMS collects 
and maintains PII.
    System: US-CERT: Initiative Three Exercise.
    Component: National Protection and Programs Directorate.
    Date of approval: March 18, 2010.
    Pursuant to Initiative Three of the Comprehensive National 
Cybersecurity Initiative, DHS is engaging in an exercise to demonstrate 
a suite of technologies that could be included in the next generation 
of the Department's EINSTEIN network security program. This 
demonstration, (commonly referred to as the ``Initiative Three 
Exercise'' or, more simply, as ``the Exercise'') will use a modified 
complement of system components currently providing the EINSTEIN 1 and 
EINSTEIN 2 capabilities, as well as a DHS test deployment of technology 
developed by the National Security Agency (NSA) that includes an 
intrusion prevention capability (collectively referred to as ``the 
Exercise technology''). The purpose of the Exercise is to demonstrate 
the ability of an existing Internet Service Provider that is a 
designated as a Trusted Internet Connection Access Provider (TICAP) to 
select and redirect Internet traffic from a single participating 
government agency through the Exercise technology, for US-CERT to apply 
intrusion detection and prevention measures to that traffic and for US-
CERT to generate automated alerts about selected cyber threats. This 
PIA is being conducted because the Exercise will analyze Internet 
traffic which may contain PII.
    System: Background Vetting Service.
    Component: United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.
    Date of approval: March 22, 2010.
    The USCIS developed the Background Vetting Service (BVS) to comply 
with the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006, Public Law 
109-248 which restricts the ability of any U.S. citizen (USC) or lawful 
permanent resident alien (LPR) who has been convicted of any 
``specified offense against a minor'' from filing certain family-based 
immigration petitions. Under the BVS, the USCIS will facilitate 
fingerprint checks of USCs whose principal residence is overseas filing 
family-based immigration petitions at Department of State (DOS) 
Overseas Posts against the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) 
Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) and the 
US-VISIT Automated Biometric Identification System (IDENT). The 
information is collected and assembled by DOS. The USCIS BVS does not 
collect or originate any information but only serves as a conduit to 
route the information between DOS, US-VISIT, FBI IAFIS, and the USCIS 
BVS Users. USCIS Conducted this PIA because BVS checks PII collected by 
DOS against US-VISIT's IDENT and FBI's IAFIS and returns a status flag 
back to DOS for their use in the adjudication of the applicable 
petition.
    System: Integrated Common Analytical Viewer Sensitive But 
Unclassified.
    Component: National Protection and Programs Directorate.
    Date of approval: March 29, 2010.
    The DHS National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) 
implemented the Integrated Common Analytical Viewer Sensitive But 
Unclassified (iCAV SBU), a sensitive but unclassified, secure, Web-
based, geospatial visualization tool that integrates commercial and 
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owned data and imagery from multiple sources enabling homeland security 
partners to establish comprehensive situational and strategic awareness 
across the nation and around the globe to better prepare for, prevent, 
respond to and recover from natural and man-made disasters. This PIA 
was performed to analyze and evaluate any privacy impact resulting from 
the use of visualization technology.
    System: Workplace Violence Prevention Program.
    Component: Transportation Security Administration.
    Date of approval: March 30, 2010.
    The TSA is committed to providing a safe work environment for its 
personnel. Toward that goal, TSA has established a Workplace Violence 
Protection Program (WVPP) that provides: national guidance to TSA 
program coordinators regarding the prevention of, and response to, 
incidents of actual or alleged workplace violence; reviews reports of 
credible threats or actual incidents of workplace violence; provides 
advice and guidance to program coordinators and management regarding 
agency action; and coordinates training for program coordinators and 
TSA employees and contractors. Workplace violence incident data, 
including PII, is maintained and secured by TSA program personnel.
    System: Online Detainee Locator System.
    Component: Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
    Date of approval: April 9, 2010.
    The Online Detainee Locator System (ODLS) is a publicly accessible, 
Web-based system owned by ICE. ODLS allows the public to conduct online 
Internet-based queries to locate persons detained by ICE for civil 
violations of the Immigration and Nationality Act. ODLS is intended to 
allow members of the public, especially family members and legal 
representatives, to determine whether an individual is currently in ICE 
detention and, if so, at which facility the person is detained. ICE 
conducted this PIA because this system makes available to the public 
PII about individuals detained by ICE.
    System: Eligibility Risk and Fraud Assessment Testing Environment.
    Component: United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.
    Date of approval: April 9, 2010.
    The Office of Transformation Coordination of the USCIS is planning 
to prototype the Eligibility Risk and Fraud Assessment Testing 
Environment. This environment will be used to develop, test, and refine 
the risk and fraud business rules against historical data extracts 
before deploying to a full production environment. This new testing 
involves the use of personally indefinable information.
    System: Alien Criminal Response Information Management System.
    Component: Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
    Date of approval: April 22, 2010.
    The Alien Criminal Response Information Management System (ACRIMe) 
is an information system used by ICE to support various law enforcement 
activities at the ICE Law Enforcement Support Center and other ICE 
locations. ACRIMe supports ICE's handling of and response to 
immigration status inquiries made by other agencies regarding 
individuals arrested, subject to background checks, or otherwise 
encountered by those agencies. ACRIMe also supports the ICE Secure 
Communities Program, which provides a biometric-based means to identify 
criminal aliens for possible removal from the United States.
    System: Data Analysis and Research for Trade Transparency System.
    Component: Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
    Date of approval: April 26, 2010.
    The DHS, ICE operates the Data Analysis and Research for Trade 
Transparency System (DARTTS), which supports ICE investigations of 
trade-based money laundering, contraband smuggling, and trade fraud. 
DARTTS analyzes trade and financial data to identify statistically 
anomalous transactions that may warrant investigation for money 
laundering or other import-export crimes. These anomalies are then 
independently confirmed and further investigated by experienced ICE 
investigators. The original PIA for DARTTS was published in October 
2008. ICE is migrating DARTTS to the ICE Enterprise Network, and has 
added two new sets of financial data and a new set of trade data. ICE 
also implemented new audit features and capabilities to enhance 
integrity and accountability. ICE is updating and republishing the 
DARTTS PIA to reflect these changes.
    System: Customer Identity Verification System Update.
    Component: United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.
    Date of approval: April 26, 2010.
    The USCIS is updating its PIA for the Customer Identity 
Verification (CIV) system to remove the ``Pilot'' designation of the 
system and to address the further deployment of the system to all field 
offices. The CIV system collects and uses biometrics (fingerprints and 
pictures) when an applicant appears before USCIS in person at the time 
of an interview so that USCIS can verify that the individual being 
interviewed is the same person for whom it conducted a background check 
and collected other information at the Application Support Center. 
USCIS will use US-VISIT Secondary Inspections Tool, a Web-based tool, 
that processes, displays, and retrieves biometric and biographic data 
from the Automated Biometric Identification System.
    System: April 2010 BP Oil Spill Response Social Media Event 
Monitoring Initiative.
    Component: Office of Operations Coordination and Planning.
    Date of approval: April 29, 2010.
    The OPS, National Operations Center (NOC), has launched an April 
2010 BP Oil Spill Response Social Media Event Monitoring Initiative 
(Initiative) to assist the DHS and its components involved in the 
security, safety, and emergency response associated with the BP oil 
spill response off the Gulf Coast. The NOC is using this vehicle to 
fulfill its statutory responsibility to provide situational awareness 
and establish a common operating picture for the Federal government, 
and for those State, local, and Tribal governments, as appropriate, 
assisting with the security, safety, and emergency response associated 
with the oil spill. While this Initiative is not designed to collect 
PII, OPS is conducting this PIA because the Initiative could 
potentially involve PII or other information received in an 
identifiable form. This PIA was effective for 60 days and expired at 
that time.
    System: Malware Lab Network.
    Component: National Protection and Programs Directorate.
    Date of approval: May 4, 2010.
    The goal of the DHS, NPPD is to advance the risk-reduction segment 
of the Department's overall mission. To meet this goal, the NPPD/U.S. 
Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) provides key capabilities 
in four cyber mission areas: (1) Alert, Warning, and Analysis; (2) 
Coordination and Collaboration; (3) Response and Assistance; and (4) 
Protection and Detection. The Malware Lab Network (MLN) contributes 
critical support to existing tools used by US-CERT to better meet these 
cyber mission areas. The MLN collects, uses, and maintains analytically 
relevant information in order to support the Department's cyber 
security mission, including the prevention and mitigation of cyber 
attacks, protection of information infrastructure, the assessment of 
cyber vulnerabilities, and response to cyber incidents. DHS conducted 
this PIA to

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publicly analyze and evaluate the PII within the MLN.

Mary Ellen Callahan,
Chief Privacy Officer, Department of Homeland Security.
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