Department of Homeland Security

EPIC Comments to DHS on Collecting Social Media Information in EVUS System

EPIC submitted comments opposing DHS's plan to collect social media information for continuous vetting of people who have already been granted a visa to visit the U.S. Social media information is of no value for vetting and prone to misinterpretation and biases.

• Democracy & Free Speech

• Privacy & Racial Justice

• Surveillance Oversight

• Traveler Screening & Border Surveillance

• APA Comments

New ICE Privacy Impact Assessment Shows All the Way the Agency Fails to Protect Immigrants’ Privacy

ICE finally published a Privacy Impact Assessment for its massive Alternatives to Detention program surveilling immigrants waiting for court dates. Despite being 20 years late, the document fails to account for most of the harms of ICE surveillance and is already outdated.

• Surveillance Oversight

• Traveler Screening & Border Surveillance

• Analysis

EPIC, Coalition Urge DHS to Extend Comment Period on Massive Changes to Rules for Asylum Seekers

EPIC and a coalition of 172 national, state, and local immigration, policy, direct services, and privacy organizations urged the Department of Homeland Security to extend a short 30-day deadline for comments on a rulemaking that makes substantial changes to the process for seeking asylum in the U.S.

• Surveillance Oversight

• Traveler Screening & Border Surveillance

• Updates

Sen. Wyden Reveals Secret DHS Program Collecting Millions of Money-Transfer Records

• Government Databases

• Surveillance Oversight

• Traveler Screening & Border Surveillance

• Updates

EPIC Comments to DHS: Advance Collection of Photos at the Border

• Face Surveillance & Biometrics

• Surveillance Oversight

• Traveler Screening & Border Surveillance

• APA Comments

Agency Information Collection Activities: Public Perceptions of Emerging Technologies

• Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

• Face Surveillance & Biometrics

• Government AI Use

• Surveillance Oversight

• APA Comments

Meeting of the DHS Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee May 14, 2021 – Information Sharing Authorization Agreements

• Government Databases

• Surveillance Oversight

• APA Comments

U.S. Department of Homeland Security/ALL-046 Counterintelligence Program System of Records

• Government Databases

• Surveillance Oversight

• APA Comments

Privacy Act of 1974: Implementation of Exemptions; Department of Homeland Security/ALL–038 Insider Threat Program System of Records

• Government Databases

• Surveillance Oversight

• APA Comments

Agency Information Collection Activities: Generic Clearance for the Collection of Social Media Information on Immigration and Foreign Travel Forms

• Surveillance Oversight

• Traveler Screening & Border Surveillance

• APA Comments