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Phil Leggiere
HS Today
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and a coalition of privacy, consumer rights, and civil rights organizations have issued a statement of opposition to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently proposed new department-wide system of records notice to the Terrorist Screening Database.
DHS solicited comments on the new program in a notice on the Federal Register dated July 6th, which said “Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposes to establish a new system of records titled, DHS/ALL-030 Use of the Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB) System of Records. DHS is maintaining a mirror copy of the Department of Justice (DOJ)/Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)-019 Terrorist Screening Records System of Records in order to automate and simplify the current method for transmitting the TSDB to DHS and its components.”
“DHS and the FBI/TSC, working together,” the document added, “ have developed the DHS Watchlist Service (WLS) in order to automate and simplify the current method for transmitting TSDB records from the FBI/TSC to DHS and its components. The WLS allows the FBI/TSC and DHS to move away from a manual and cumbersome process of data transmission and management to an automated and centralized process. The WLS will replace multiple data feeds from the FBI/TSC to DHS and its components, as documented by information sharing agreements, with a single feed from the FBI/TSC to DHS and its components. The WLS is a system to system secure connection with no direct user interface.”
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