DHS Provides a Privacy Impact Assessment for the Biometric Identification Transnational Migration Alert Program

DHS released a Privacy Impact Assessment that describes how the Biometric Identification Transnational Migration Alert Program (BITMAP) leverages biometric and biographic information as part of ICE’s effort to detect and dismantle transnational criminal and terrorist networks that pose a risk to the United States. It also describes how the exchange of information between ICE and its foreign law enforcement partners employs safeguards to protect privacy and civil liberties in accordance with law, regulation, and policy.