PIAs

PIA: Phoenix Platform

This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) addresses the privacy implications of the Phoenix Platform, which collects, maintains and disseminates information required for background investigations, physical access, and security clearances for FBI employees, contractors and detailees (collectively, personnel), visitors, and applicants.

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PIA: BICS Online (BOL) and BICS Online Transfer System (BOLTS)

This privacy impact assessment covers the BICS Online (BOL)/BICS Online Transfer System (BOLTS) cross-domain information system used to manage background investigations for federal employees and applicants.

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PIA: Law Enforcement Suicide Data Collection

This privacy impact assessment (PIA) covers the Law Enforcement Suicide Data Collection (LESDC), which collects information about current and former law enforcement officers who attempt suicide or die by suicide.

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PIA: Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) System

This privacy impact assessment covers the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) System and is being completed to address the privacy risks and mitigations associated with the collection and maintenance of point of contact and user information, the ability to link incident-specific data elements to individuals, and the release of UCR data through the Crime Data Explorer.

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PIA: Collection of Law Enforcement and Crime Tool (COLECT)

The Collection of Law Enforcement and Crime Tool (COLECT) enables federal, state, local, tribal, college/university, and territorial agencies to submit information to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for multiple data collections.

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PIA: Virtual Academy

This privacy impact assessment covers the Virtual Academy, which is the FBI’s enterprise system for training and the repository for completed training records (i.e., training transcripts).

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PIA: Next Generation Identification Iris Service

This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) addresses the FBI’s Next Generation Identification Iris Service (NGI-IS), which will consist of a national iris repository that resides in the FBI’s NGI system and an iris search capability for authorized users.

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PIA: Threat Intake Processing System (TIPS)

This privacy impact assessment assesses the privacy risks associated with maintaining information in, and sharing information from, the Threat Intake Processing System (TIPS).

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PIA: Bioterrorism Risk Assessment Group (BRAG) Database

This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) describes how the FBI performs background investigations of those persons seeking employment that requires access to biological agents and toxins; the information collected for this authorized purpose is maintained in the CJIS Division’s Bioterrorism Risk Assessment Group (BRAG) Database.

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PIA: Passport Visa Database (PVDB)

This privacy impact assessment address the FBI’s Passport Visa Database (PVDB), which is an application that assists FBI personnel in obtaining official and diplomatic passports and visas and serves as a central repository for all current and historical information concerning official international travel by FBI personnel.

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PIA: FBI Police Automated Security Roster

This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) addresses the FBI Police Automated Security Roster (ASR), a web-based application on the FBI Network that automates the duty roster, visitor notification system, and daily patrol information.

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PIA: Combined National Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) Index System (CODIS)

This privacy impact assessment covers the FBI's Combined National Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) Index System (CODIS), which provides a local, state and federal tiered search and storage capability for DNA records submitted by participating criminal justice agency forensic laboratories and criminal justice booking agencies.

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PIA: Next Generation Identification - Biometric Interoperability

This privacy impact assessment serves as an update to the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS)/Next Generation Identification (NGI) Biometric Interoperability PIA published in January 2012, because the NGI System has since replaced IAFIS as the FBI’s biometric and criminal history records system.

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PIA: Yello

This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) addresses the privacy implications of Yello, a third-party website and application that will enable the FBI to manage email subscriptions about recruiting and hiring events and FBI job postings.

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PIA: Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)

This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) covers the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), which provides a database for the FBI's Laboratory Division to describe and track evidence, capture forensic examination procedures and notes, and generate reports of results and conclusions.

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PIA: NGI Rap Back Service

This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) covers the Rap Back Service, a capability of the Bureau's Next Generation Identification (NGI) system that provides authorized agencies notification of criminal activity and, in limited cases, of civil activity, that occurs after the initial processing and retention of criminal or civil transactions.

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PIA: Law Enforcement Online (LEO)

This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) covers LEO, an information-sharing platform and collaboration site that maintains and disseminates criminal justice and national security information.

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PIA: National Crime Information Center (NCIC)

This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) provides an overview of the types of personally identifiable information contained in the NCIC and the use of the information to further criminal justice objectives.

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PIA: VISNET and IPGNET

This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) addresses the privacy the Visual Information Support Network (VISNET) and the Investigative and Prosecutive Graphic Network (IPGNET), which support the Operational Projects Unit (OPU) by providing a system of hardware and software that facilitates the production of visual aids that assist the FBI and state, local, tribal, and other federal law enforcement entities with criminal and national security investigations and prosecution.

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PIA: Electronic Departmental Order (eDO) - NICS Appeals

This Privacy Impact Assessment address the expansion of the electronic Departmental Order (eDO) process to include appeals of firearms denials from the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS)

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PIA: National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS)

This Privacy Impact Assessment discusses the privacy risks associated with the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) and permissible uses of information collected by and maintained within the NICS.

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PIA: Facial Analysis, Comparison, and Evaluation (FACE) Operations Services

This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) is an update to the Facial Analysis, Comparison, and Evaluation (FACE) Services Unit PIA published in May 2015 and the FACE Phase II System PIA published in July 2018.

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PIA: JusticeConnect

This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) covers the JusticeConnect application, which is an online, user-driven, real-time collaboration and communication tool for criminal justice, intelligence, national security, emergency management, military, public safety, and private sector partners.

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PIA: Electronic Departmental Order (eDO)

This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) covers the Electronic Departmental Order (eDO) process, an initiative currently being developed by the Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division and implemented in phases to automate the DO process.

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PIA: Data Analysis Support Laboratory

This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) covers the FBI’s Data Analysis Support Laboratory (DASL), which enables testing and evaluation of identity and biometric technology in a secure environment.

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PIA: FBI Iris Pilot

This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) addresses the FBI Iris Pilot, which allows authorized criminal justice agencies to enroll iris images with criminal records or append iris images to existing criminal records.

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Privacy Impact Assessment for the eFile and Entellitrak

Privacy Impact Assessment for the eFile and Entellitrak

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Privacy Impact Assessment for fbijobs.gov and FBI Candidate Gateway (CG)

Privacy Impact Assessment for fbijobs.gov and FBI Candidate Gateway (CG)

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Privacy Impact Assessment: Financial Reporting Application (FRA)

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Financial Reporting Application (FRA) is a financial and procurement report management system owned by the FBI Finance and Facilities Division (FFD). The FRA is a financial data analysis application that is a comprehensive web- based enterprise reporting tool used by the FFD and FBI staff with financial and/or procurement responsibilities to create reports using data from multiple systems, most notably the FBI’s United Financial Management System - Secret Domain (UFMS-S), which contains classified information. The data used in FRA reflects the combined data from these systems to provide a complete financial analysis and reporting application.

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PIA: Enterprise Telecommunications Information System

This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) covers the FBI’s Enterprise Telecommunications Information System and is being completed to discuss the privacy impact for maintaining caller identification information and the audio file recordings of telephone calls.

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PIA: Mobile Biometric Application

This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) describes the Mobile Biometric Application (MBA) program, which consists of applications on mobile devices that allow FBI agents and other authorized personnel to collect fingerprints, photos, and available biographic data to confirm an individual’s identity.

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PIA: LEOKA Program

This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) addresses the privacy risks and mitigations regarding the Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA) Program collecting personally identifiable information on officers and offenders and the sharing of such information.

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PIA: National Use-of-Force Data Collection

This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) covers the National Use-of-Force Data Collection, which is being established to collect and report any use of force by a law enforcement officer that results in the death or serious bodily injury of a person, as well as when a law enforcement officer discharges a firearm at or in the direction of a person.

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PIA Addendum: JusticeConnect

This addendum is a summary of the privacy analysis conducted to evaluate a new feature within JusticeConnect that allows users to participate in group chats, online meetings, and instant polls with instant messaging.

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PIA: NGI-Interstate Photo System

This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) covers the Next Generation Identification-Interstate Photo System (NGI-IPS), which serves as the FBI’s biometric identity and criminal history records system and maintains the fingerprints and associated identity information of individuals submitted to the FBI for authorized criminal justice, national security, and civil purposes.

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PIA: LEEP

This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) addresses the privacy implications of the Law Enforcement Enterprise Portal (LEEP) collecting, maintaining, and sharing the personally identifiable information (PII) of its users and the mitigations in place to protect users’ PII.

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PIA: National Data Exchange (N-DEx) System

This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) covers the FBI's National Data Exchange (N-DEx) System, an online investigative information-sharing system that brings together criminal justice records from across the nation.

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National DNA Index System (NDIS)

The National Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) Index System (NDIS) is a national index of permissible DNA records input by federal, state, and local participating Criminal Justice Agency forensic laboratories.

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eGuardian

The eGuardian System (eGuardian) is a web-based platform where federal and state law enforcement entities can collaborate, coordinate, and deconflict investigative activity. eGuardian allows other federal agencies, state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement (FSLTT) entities, the Department of Defense, and Fusion Centers to document, share and track potential threats, suspicious activity, and cyber, counterterrorism, counterintelligence, or criminal activity with the FBI and with each other.

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Next Generation Identification Latent Services

This privacy impact assessment (PIA) is an update to the Next Generation Identification (NGI) Palm Print and Latent Fingerprint Files PIA published in January 2015. This PIA will provide updated information regarding latent services within the NGI System, which is managed by the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division to assist the FBI’s law enforcement and national security partners in solving crime and protecting our nation against acts of terrorism.

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