The Secret Service’s Cyber Awareness Program—done through a...
The Secret Service’s Cyber Awareness Program -- done through a contract with QinetiQ subsidiary Cyveillance -- has a “limited” privacy impact on individuals, said a privacy impact assessment from the Department of Homeland Security (http://1.usa.gov/W4b3Th). “The privacy impact on individuals…
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is limited since the primary purpose of Cyveillance is not to collect” personally identifiable information (PII), though “the content of interest to the Secret Service that is collected by Cyveillance may contain PII,” the assessment said. The program “collects information using carefully defined parameters, specifically tailored to identify relevant information for official purposes, while also minimizing false positives,” and the agency retains and indexes information needed for investigations and discards any unnecessary information, the assessment said.