The Department of Homeland Security uses software tools to extract insights from its vast troves of data. Under federal law, DHS must make an annual report to Congress on its use of data mining to allay concerns about possible privacy violations.
The latest report, released publicly April 20, said that “no decisions about individuals are made based solely on data mining results” and that DHS investigators “apply their own judgment and expertise to bear in making determinations about individuals initially identified through data mining activities.”
