Data Mining: Technology and Policy. 2008 Report to Congress

Abstract

The Department of Homeland Security Privacy Office is pleased to provide to the Congress its 2008 report Data Mining: Technology and Policy. The Privacy Office has prepared this report to the Congress pursuant to the Department's obligations under Section 804 of the Implementing the Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007, entitled the Federal Agency Data Mining Reporting Act of 2007. This report discusses activities currently deployed or under development in the Department that meet the Act's definition of data mining, and provides the information set out in the Act's reporting requirements for data mining programs. It also provides a summary of the Privacy Office's public workshop, "Implementing Privacy Protections in Government Data Mining," which was held on July 24-25, 2008. Finally, this report presents new privacy principles for research projects conducted by the DHS Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), the Department's primary research and development arm. The Principles for Implementing Privacy Protections in S&T Research Projects were developed jointly by the Privacy Office and S&T and will be implemented in all new S&T research projects, including those that involve data mining. The Privacy Office has identified three Department programs that currently engage in data mining, as defined by the Federal Agency Data Mining Reporting Act: the Automated Targeting System (ATS) Inbound, Outbound, and Passenger modules, which are administered by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP); the Data Analysis and Research for Trade Transparency System (DARTTS), which is administered by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); and the Freight Assessment System (FAS), which is administered by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). While each of these programs engages to some extent in data mining, none uses data mining to make unevaluated automated decisions about individuals.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA491748

Entities

People

  • Hugo Teufel Iii

Organizations

  • United States Department of Homeland Security

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Commerce
  • Computer Access Control
  • Congress
  • Counterterrorism
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Mining
  • Governments
  • Homeland Security
  • Information Security
  • Information Systems
  • International Trade
  • Law
  • National Governments
  • National Security
  • Network Science
  • Personnel Management
  • United States Government

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.
  • Government and Public Administration Law.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy