[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 213 (Tuesday, November 4, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65414-65419]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-26100]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Office of the Secretary
[Docket No. DHS-2014-0057]
Privacy Act of 1974; Department of Homeland Security/U.S. Customs
and Border Protection (DHS/CBP)-009 Electronic System for Travel
Authorization (ESTA) System of Records
AGENCY: Department of Homeland Security, Privacy Office.
ACTION: Notice of Privacy Act System of Records.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. 552a, the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposes to update a current DHS
system of records titled, ``Department of Homeland Security/U.S.
Customs and Border Protection--DHS/CBP-009 Electronic System for Travel
Authorization (ESTA) System of Records.'' This system of records allows
the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at DHS to collect and
maintain records on nonimmigrant aliens seeking to travel to the United
States under the Visa Waiver Program and other persons, including U.S.
citizens and lawful permanent residents, whose name is provided to DHS
as part of a nonimmigrant alien's ESTA application. The system is used
to determine whether the applicant is eligible to travel to and enter
the United States under the Visa Waiver Program by vetting the ESTA
application information against selected security and law enforcement
databases at DHS, including but not limited to the use of CBP's TECS
(not an acronym) and the Automated Targeting System (ATS). In addition,
ATS retains a copy of ESTA application data to identify ESTA applicants
who may pose a security risk to the United States. ATS maintains copies
of key elements of certain databases in order to minimize the impact of
processing searches on the operational systems and to act as a backup
for certain operational systems. DHS may also vet ESTA application
information against security and law enforcement databases at other
Federal agencies to enhance DHS's ability to determine whether the
applicant poses a security risk to the United States and is eligible to
travel to and enter the United States under the Visa Waiver Program.
The results of this vetting may inform DHS's assessment of whether the
applicant's travel poses a law enforcement or security risk and whether
the application should be approved.
As part of the Department's ongoing effort to promote transparency
regarding its collection of information, DHS/CBP is updating: (1) The
categories of individuals covered by the system, and (2) categories of
records in the system to include revised eligibility questions and
additional data elements collected on the ESTA application. DHS issued
a Final Rule to exempt this system of records from certain provisions
of the Privacy Act on August 31, 2009 (74 FR 45070). These regulations
remain in effect.
Furthermore, this notice includes non-substantive changes to
simplify the formatting and text of the previously published notice.
This updated system will be included in DHS's inventory of systems of
records, located on the DHS Web site at http://www.dhs.gov/system-records-notices-sorns.
DATES: This updated system will be effective upon the public display of
this notice. Although this system is effective upon publication, DHS
will accept and consider comments from the public and evaluate the need
for any revisions to this notice.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments on this notice, including the
applicability of the exemptions set forth in the August 31, 2009 Final
Rule (74 FR 45070) to the new categories of individuals and categories
of records, identified by docket number DHS-2014-0057, by one of the
following methods:
Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
Fax: 202-343-4010.
Mail: Karen L. Neuman, Chief Privacy Officer, Privacy
Office, Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC 20528.
Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency name
and docket number for this rulemaking. All comments received will be
posted without change to http://www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided.
Docket: For access to the docket to read background documents or
comments received, please visit http://www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For general questions, please contact:
John Connors, (202) 344-1610, CBP Privacy Officer, Privacy and
Diversity Office, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20229. For
privacy questions, please contact: Karen L. Neuman, (202) 343-1717,
Chief Privacy Officer, Privacy Office, Department of Homeland Security,
Washington, DC 20528.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. 552a, the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) is updating a current DHS system of records titled,
``DHS/CBP-009 Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) System
of Records.''
In the wake of the tragedy of September 11, 2001, Congress enacted
the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007,
Public Law 110-53. Section 711 of that Act sought to address the
security vulnerabilities associated with Visa Waiver Program (VWP)
travelers not being subject to the same degree of screening as other
international visitors. As a result, section 711 requires DHS to
develop and implement a fully automated electronic travel authorization
system to collect biographical and other information necessary to
evaluate the security risks and eligibility of an applicant to travel
to the United States under the VWP. The VWP is a travel facilitation
program that has evolved since the terrorist attack on the Nation on
September 11, 2001, to include more robust security standards that are
designed to prevent terrorists and other criminal actors from
exploiting the Program to enter the country.
ESTA is a Web-based system that DHS/CBP developed in 2008 to
determine the eligibility of foreign nationals to travel by air or sea
to the United States under the VWP. Applicants submit biographic
information and answer eligibility questions using the ESTA Web site.
CBP uses the information submitted to ESTA to make a determination
regarding whether the applicant's intended travel poses a law
enforcement or security risk. CBP vets the ESTA applicant information
against selected security and law enforcement databases, including the
use of TECS and the Automated Targeting System (ATS). ATS also retains
a copy of ESTA application data to identify ESTA applicants who may
pose a security risk to the United States. ATS maintains copies of key
elements of certain databases in order to minimize the
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impact of processing searches on the operational systems and to act as
a backup for certain operational systems. DHS may also vet ESTA
application information against security and law enforcement databases
at other Federal agencies to enhance DHS's ability to determine whether
the applicant poses a security risk to the United States and is
eligible to travel to and enter the United States under the Visa Waiver
Program. The results of this vetting may inform DHS's assessment of
whether the applicant's travel poses a law enforcement or security
risk. The ESTA eligibility determination is made prior to a visitor
boarding a carrier en route to the United States.
The System of Records Notice (SORN) for ESTA, last published on
July 30, 2012 (77 FR 44642), is being updated with new categories of
individuals and new categories of records to provide notice of new data
elements and eligibility questions on the ESTA application. The
categories of covered individuals is being updated to accurately
reflect information in the system that could pertain to U.S. citizens,
U.S. businesses or entities, and lawful permanent residents. The new
data elements on the ESTA application provide the Department with
enhanced vetting capability while the eligibility questions have been
revised to reflect the new data elements and promote readability and
make the questions easier to understand by the general public.
Aligning with the 9/11 Commission's recommendation to address the
vulnerabilities associated with less stringent screening of VWP
travelers, CBP has added the following data elements to the ESTA
application to make the screening of VWP travelers more robust:
Other Names or Aliases
Other Country of Citizenship
[cir] If yes, passport number on additional citizenship passport
City of Birth
Home Address
Parents' Names
Email Address
Telephone Number
National Identification Number
Current Job Title
Current or Previous Employer Name
Current or Previous Employer Address
Current or Previous Employer Telephone Number
Emergency Point of Contact Information Name
Emergency Point of Contact Information Telephone Number
Emergency Point of Contact Information Email Address
U.S. Point of Contact Name
U.S. Point of Contact Address
U.S. Point of Contact Telephone Number
The addition of these data elements provides additional security in
the ESTA application process by enhancing ESTA's vetting capability to
identify individuals who may pose a threat to the United States,
thereby reducing the likelihood that an applicant with derogatory
security records will be automatically approved for a travel
authorization. Moreover, the additional data elements also reduces the
number of inconclusive matches to derogatory records during the vetting
process, which will decrease the number of applicants who are required
to apply for a visa due to ambiguity concerning their identity.
When a person submits an ESTA application, CBP examines the
application by screening the applicant's data through ATS (to screen
for terrorists or threats to aviation and border security) and TECS
(for matches to persons identified to be of law enforcement interest).
The additional data elements will help resolve potentially inconclusive
matches by providing additional data to confirm an applicant's
identity. Inconclusive matches ultimately result in a denial of the
ESTA application, which results in an applicant being directed to a
U.S. embassy or consulate to apply for a visa.
DHS/CBP has authority to operate this system under Title IV of the
Homeland Security Act of 2002, 6 U.S.C. 201, et seq., and Section
217(h)(3) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. 1187(h)(3).
Consistent with DHS's information sharing mission, information
stored in ESTA may be shared with other DHS components that have a need
to know the information to carry out their national security, law
enforcement, immigration, intelligence, or other homeland security
functions. Information stored in ESTA may also be shared with other
Federal security and counterterrorism agencies, as well as on a case-
by-case basis to appropriate state, local, tribal, territorial,
foreign, or international government agencies. This external sharing
takes place after DHS determines that it is consistent with the routine
uses set forth in this system of records notice.
Additionally, for ongoing, systematic sharing, DHS completes an
information sharing and access agreement with Federal partners to
establish the terms and conditions of the sharing, including
documenting the need to know, authorized users and uses, and the
privacy protections for the data. This updated system will be included
in DHS's inventory of systems of records, located on the DHS Web site
at http://www.dhs.gov/system-records-notices-sorns.
II. Privacy Act
The Privacy Act embodies fair information practice principles in a
statutory framework governing the means by which Federal Government
agencies collect, maintain, use, and disseminate individuals' records.
The Privacy Act applies to information that is maintained in a ``system
of records.'' A ``system of records'' is a group of any records under
the control of an agency from which information is retrieved by the
name of an individual or by some identifying number, symbol, or other
identifying particular assigned to the individual. In the Privacy Act,
an individual is defined to encompass U.S. citizens and lawful
permanent residents. As a matter of policy, DHS extends administrative
Privacy Act protections to all individuals when systems of records
maintain information on U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, and
visitors.
Given the importance of providing privacy protections to
international travelers, even prior to the collection of these new data
elements that may include information about U.S. persons, DHS always
administratively applied the privacy protections and safeguards of the
Act to all international travelers subject to ESTA. With the addition
of the new data elements, ESTA now falls squarely within the mixed
system policy and DHS will continue to extend the administrative
protections of the Privacy Act to information about travelers and non-
travelers whose information is provided to DHS as part of the ESTA
application.
Below is the description of the DHS/CBP-009 Electronic System for
Travel Authorization (ESTA) System of Records.
In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552a(r), DHS has provided a report of
this system of records to the Office of Management and Budget and to
Congress.
System of Records
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)/U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (CBP)-009.
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System Name:
DHS/CBP-009 Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA)
Security Classification:
Unclassified. The data may be retained on classified networks but
this does not change the nature and character of the data until it is
combined with classified information.
System Location:
Records are maintained at the CBP Headquarters in Washington, DC,
and in field offices. Records are replicated from the operational
system and maintained on the DHS unclassified and classified networks.
Categories of individuals covered by the system:
Categories of individuals covered by this system include:
1. Foreign nationals who seek to enter the United States by air or
sea under the VWP; and
2. Persons, including U.S. Citizens and lawful permanent residents,
whose information is provided in response to ESTA application
questions.
Categories of records in the system:
VWP travelers obtain the required travel authorization by
electronically submitting an application consisting of biographical and
other data elements via the ESTA Web site. The categories of records in
ESTA include:
Full Name (First, Middle, and Last);
Other names or aliases, if available;
Date of birth;
City of birth;
Gender;
Email address;
Telephone number (home, mobile, work, other);
Home address (address, apartment number, city, state/
region);
IP address;
ESTA application number;
Country of residence;
Passport number;
Passport issuing country;
Passport issuance date;
Passport expiration date;
Department of Treasury pay.gov payment tracking number
(i.e., confirmation of payment; absence of payment confirmation will
result in a ``not cleared'' determination);
Country of citizenship;
Other citizenship (country, passport number);
National identification number, if available;
Date of anticipated crossing;
Carrier information (carrier name and flight or vessel
number);
City of embarkation;
Address while visiting the United States (number, street,
city, state);
Emergency point of contact information (name, telephone
number, email address);
U.S. Point of Contact (name, address, telephone number);
Parents' names;
Current job title;
Current or previous employer name;
Current or previous employer street address;
Current or previous employer telephone number; and
Any change of address while in the United States.
The categories of records in ESTA also include responses to the
following questions:
Do you currently have any of the following diseases:
[cir] Chancroid
[cir] Gonorrhea
[cir] Granuloma Inguinale
[cir] Leprosy, infectious
[cir] Lymphogranuloma venereum
[cir] Syphilis, infectious
[cir] Active Tuberculosis
Have you ever been arrested or convicted for a crime that
resulted in serious damage to property, or serious harm to another
person or government authority?
Have you ever violated any law related to possessing,
using, or distributing illegal drugs?
Do you seek to engage in or have you ever engaged in
terrorist activities, espionage, or sabotage; or genocide?
Have you ever committed fraud or misrepresented yourself
or others to obtain, or assist others to obtain, a visa or entry into
the United States?
Are you currently seeking employment in the United States
or you were you previously employed in the United States without prior
permission from the U.S. government?
Have you ever been denied a U.S. visa you applied for with
your current or previous passport, or have you ever been refused
admission to the United States or withdrawn your application for
admission at a U.S. port of entry? If yes, when and where?
Have you ever stayed in the United States longer than the
admission period granted to you by the U.S. government?
Authority for maintenance of the system:
Title IV of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, 6.U.S.C. 201 et
seq., the Immigration and Naturalization Act, as amended, including 8
U.S.C. 1187(a)(11) and (h)(3), and implementing regulations contained
in Part 217, title 8, Code of Federal Regulations; and the Travel
Promotion Act of 2009, Public Law 111-145, 22 U.S.C. 2131.
Purpose(s):
The purpose of this system is to collect and maintain a record of
nonimmigrant aliens who want to travel to the United States under the
VWP, and to determine whether applicants are eligible to travel to and
enter the United States under the VWP by vetting their information--and
other information that the Secretary of Homeland Security determines is
necessary, including information about other persons included on the
ESTA application--against various security and law enforcement
databases and identifying applicants who pose a security risk to the
United States. This vetting includes consideration of the applicant's
IP address, along with the other application data.
The Department of Treasury pay.gov tracking number (associated with
the payment information provided to pay.gov and stored in the Credit/
Debit Card Data System, DHS/CBP-003 Credit/Debit Card Data System
(CDCDS), 76 FR 67755 (November 2, 2011)) will be used to process ESTA
and third party administrator fees and to reconcile issues regarding
payment between ESTA, CDCDS, and Pay.gov. Payment information will not
be used for vetting purposes and is stored in a separate system (CDCDS)
from the ESTA application data.
DHS maintains a replica of some or all of the data in ESTA on the
unclassified and classified DHS networks to allow for analysis and
vetting consistent with the above stated uses, purposes, and this
published notice.
Routine uses of records maintained in the system, including categories
of users and the purposes of such uses:
In addition to those disclosures generally permitted under 5 U.S.C.
552a(b) of the Privacy Act, all or a portion of the records or
information contained in this system may be disclosed outside DHS as a
routine use pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552a(b)(3) as follows:
A. To the Department of Justice (DOJ), including Offices of the
U.S. Attorneys, or other federal agency conducting litigation or in
proceedings before any court, adjudicative, or administrative body,
when it is relevant or necessary to the litigation and one of the
following is a party to the litigation or has an interest in such
litigation:
1. DHS or any component thereof;
2. Any employee or former employee of DHS in his/her official
capacity;
3. Any employee or former employee of DHS in his/her individual
capacity when DOJ or DHS has agreed to represent the employee; or
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4. The U.S. or any agency thereof.
B. To a congressional office from the record of an individual in
response to an inquiry from that congressional office made at the
request of the individual to whom the record pertains.
C. To the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) or
General Services Administration pursuant to records management
inspections being conducted under the authority of 44 U.S.C. 2904 and
2906.
D. To an agency or organization for the purpose of performing audit
or oversight operations as authorized by law, but only such information
as is necessary and relevant to such audit or oversight function.
E. To appropriate agencies, entities, and persons when:
1. DHS suspects or has confirmed that the security or
confidentiality of information in the system of records has been
compromised;
2. DHS has determined that as a result of the suspected or
confirmed compromise, there is a risk of identity theft or fraud, harm
to economic or property interests, harm to an individual, or harm to
the security or integrity of this system or other systems or programs
(whether maintained by DHS or another agency or entity) that rely upon
the compromised information; and
3. The disclosure made to such agencies, entities, and persons is
reasonably necessary to assist in connection with DHS's efforts to
respond to the suspected or confirmed compromise and prevent, minimize,
or remedy such harm.
F. To contractors and their agents, grantees, experts, consultants,
and others performing or working on a contract, service, grant,
cooperative agreement, or other assignment for DHS, when necessary to
accomplish an agency function related to this system of records.
Individuals provided information under this routine use are subject to
the same Privacy Act requirements and limitations on disclosure as are
applicable to DHS officers and employees.
G. To an appropriate federal, state, tribal, local, international,
or foreign law enforcement agency or other appropriate authority
charged with investigating or prosecuting a violation or enforcing or
implementing a law, rule, regulation, or order, when a record, either
on its face or in conjunction with other information, indicates a
violation or potential violation of law, which includes criminal,
civil, or regulatory violations and such disclosure is proper and
consistent with the official duties of the person making the
disclosure.
H. To appropriate federal, state, local, tribal, or foreign
governmental agencies or multilateral governmental organizations for
the purpose of protecting the vital health interests of a data subject
or other persons (e.g., to assist such agencies or organizations in
preventing exposure to or transmission of a communicable or
quarantinable disease or to combat other significant public health
threats; appropriate notice will be provided of any identified health
threat or risk);
I. To third parties during the course of a law enforcement
investigation to the extent necessary to obtain information pertinent
to the investigation;
J. To a federal, state, tribal, local, international, or foreign
government agency or entity for the purpose of consulting with that
agency or entity: (1) To assist in making a determination regarding
redress for an individual in connection with the operations of a DHS
component or program; (2) for the purpose of verifying the identity of
an individual seeking redress in connection with the operations of a
DHS component or program; or (3) for the purpose of verifying the
accuracy of information submitted by an individual who has requested
such redress on behalf of another individual;
K. To federal and foreign government intelligence or
counterterrorism agencies or components when DHS becomes aware of an
indication of a threat or potential threat to national or international
security to assist in countering such threat, or to assist in anti-
terrorism efforts;
L. To the Department of State in the processing of petitions or
applications for benefits under the Immigration and Nationality Act,
and all other immigration and nationality laws including treaties and
reciprocal agreements;
M. To an organization or individual in either the public or private
sector, either foreign or domestic, when there is a reason to believe
that the recipient is or could become the target of a particular
terrorist activity or conspiracy, to the extent the information is
relevant to the protection of life or property;
N. To the carrier transporting an individual to the United States,
but only to the extent that CBP provides information that the ESTA
status is not applicable to the traveler, or, if applicable, that the
individual is authorized to travel, not authorized to travel, pending,
or has not applied.
O. To the Department of Treasury's Pay.gov, for payment processing
and payment reconciliation purposes;
P. To a court, magistrate, or administrative tribunal in the course
of presenting evidence, including disclosures to opposing counsel or
witnesses in the course of civil discovery, litigation, or settlement
negotiations, or in response to a subpoena, or in connection with
criminal law proceedings;
Q. To the news media and the public, with the approval of the Chief
Privacy Officer in consultation with counsel, when there exists a
legitimate public interest in the disclosure of the information, when
disclosure is necessary to preserve confidence in the integrity of DHS,
or when disclosure is necessary to demonstrate the accountability of
DHS's officers, employees, or individuals covered by the system, except
to the extent the Chief Privacy Officer determines that release of the
specific information in the context of a particular case would
constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.
Disclosure to consumer reporting agencies:
None.
Policies and practices for storing, retrieving, accessing, retaining,
and disposing of records in the system:
Storage:
DHS/CBP stores records in this system electronically or on paper in
secure facilities in a locked drawer behind a locked door. The records
may be stored on magnetic disc, tape, and digital media.
Retrievability:
Records may be retrieved by any of the data elements supplied by
the applicant.
Safeguards:
DHS/CBP safeguards records in this system according to applicable
rules and policies, including all applicable DHS automated systems
security and access policies. CBP has imposed strict controls to
minimize the risk of compromising the information that is being stored.
Access to the computer system containing the records in this system is
limited to those individuals who have a need to know the information
for the performance of their official duties and who have appropriate
clearances or permissions.
Retention and disposal:
Application information submitted to ESTA generally expires and is
deemed ``inactive'' two years after the initial submission of
information by the applicant. In the event that a traveler's passport
remains valid for less than two
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years from the date of the ESTA approval, the ESTA travel authorization
will expire concurrently with the passport. Information in ESTA will be
retained for one year after the ESTA travel authorization expires.
After this period, the inactive account information will be purged from
online access and archived for 12 years. Data linked at any time during
the 15-year retention period (generally 3 years active, 12 years
archived), to active law enforcement lookout records, will be matched
by CBP to enforcement activities, and/or investigations or cases,
including ESTA applications that are denied authorization to travel,
will remain accessible for the life of the law enforcement activities
to which they may become related. NARA guidelines for retention and
archiving of data will apply to ESTA and CBP continues to negotiate
with NARA for approval of the ESTA data retention and archiving plan.
Records replicated on the unclassified and classified networks will
follow the same retention schedule.
Payment information is not stored in ESTA, but is forwarded to
pay.gov and stored in CBP's financial processing system, CDCDS,
pursuant to the DHS/CBP-018, CDCDS system of records notice.
When a VWP traveler's ESTA data is used for purposes of processing
his or her application for admission to the United States, the ESTA
data will be used to create a corresponding admission record in the
DHS/CBP-016 Non-Immigrant Information System (NIIS). This corresponding
admission record will be retained in accordance with the NIIS retention
schedule, which is 75 years.
System Manager and address:
Director, Office of Automated Systems, U.S. Customs and Border
Protection Headquarters, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC
20229.
Notification procedure:
Applicants may access their ESTA information to view and amend
their applications by providing their ESTA number, birth date, and
passport number. Once they have provided their ESTA number, birth date,
and passport number, applicants may view their ESTA status (authorized
to travel, not authorized to travel, pending) and submit limited
updates to their travel itinerary information. If an applicant does not
know his or her application number, he or she can provide his or her
name, passport number, date of birth, and passport issuing country to
retrieve his or her application number.
In addition, ESTA applicants and other individuals whose
information is included on ESTA applications may submit requests and
receive information maintained in this system as it relates to data
submitted by or on behalf of a person who travels to the United States
and crosses the border, as well as, for ESTA applicants, the resulting
determination (authorized to travel, pending, or not authorized to
travel). However, the Secretary of Homeland Security has exempted
portions of this system from certain provisions of the Privacy Act
related to providing the accounting of disclosures to individuals
because it is a law enforcement system. CBP will, however, consider
individual requests to determine whether or not information may be
released. In processing requests for access to information in this
system, CBP will review not only the records in the operational system
but also the records that were replicated on the unclassified and
classified networks, and based on this notice provide appropriate
access to the information.
Individuals seeking notification of and access to any record
contained in this system of records, or seeking to contest its content,
may submit a request in writing to the Chief Privacy Officer and
Headquarters FOIA Officer, whose contact information can be found at
http://www.dhs.gov/foia under ``FOIA Contact Information.'' If an
individual believes more than one component maintains Privacy Act
records concerning him or her, the individual may submit the request to
the Chief Privacy Officer and Chief Freedom of Information Act Officer,
Department of Homeland Security, 245 Murray Drive SW., Building 410,
STOP-0655, Washington, DC 20528.
When seeking records about yourself from this system of records or
any other Departmental system of records, your request must conform
with the Privacy Act regulations set forth in 6 CFR part 5. You must
first verify your identity, meaning that you must provide your full
name, current address, and date and place of birth. You must sign your
request, and your signature must either be notarized or submitted under
28 U.S.C. 1746, a law that permits statements to be made under penalty
of perjury as a substitute for notarization. While no specific form is
required, you may obtain forms for this purpose from the Chief Privacy
Officer and Chief Freedom of Information Act Officer, http://www.dhs.gov/foia or 1-866-431-0486. In addition, you should:
Explain why you believe the Department would have
information on you;
Identify which component(s) of the Department you believe
may have the information about you;
Specify when you believe the records would have been
created; and
Provide any other information that will help the FOIA
staff determine which DHS component agency may have responsive records;
If your request is seeking records pertaining to another living
individual, you must include a statement from that individual
certifying his or her agreement for you to access his or her records.
Without the above information, the component(s) may not be able to
conduct an effective search, and your request may be denied due to lack
of specificity or lack of compliance with applicable regulations.
Record access procedures:
See ``Notification procedure'' above.
Contesting record procedures:
See ``Notification procedure'' above.
Record source categories:
Records are obtained from the online ESTA application at https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov/esta/.
Exemptions claimed for the system:
No exemption shall be asserted with respect to information
maintained in the system as it relates to data submitted by or on
behalf of a person who travels to visit the United States and crosses
the border, nor shall an exemption be asserted with respect to the
resulting determination (authorized to travel, pending, or not
authorized to travel). Information in the system may be shared with law
enforcement and/or intelligence agencies pursuant to the above routine
uses. The Privacy Act requires DHS to maintain an accounting of the
disclosures made pursuant to all routines uses. Disclosing the fact
that a law enforcement or intelligence agency has sought and been
provided particular records may affect ongoing law enforcement
activities. As such, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552a(j)(2), DHS will claim
exemption from Sections (c)(3), (e)(8), and (g) of the Privacy Act of
1974, as amended, as is necessary and appropriate to protect this
information. Further, DHS will claim exemption from Section (c)(3) of
the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552a(k)(2) as
is necessary and appropriate to protect this information.
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Dated: September 30, 2014.
Karen L. Neuman,
Chief Privacy Officer, Department of Homeland Security.
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