Public Information Compilation for Travel Threat Analysis (Dataminr)

Overview

Development stage

DeployedSource: c) Deployed – The use case is being actively authorized or utilized to support the functions or mission of an agency.

High-impact designation

Presumed high-impact, determined notSource: b) Presumed high-impact, but determined not high impact

Impact justification

The AI outputs do not produce an action or serve as a principal basis for a decision that has the potential to significantly impact the safety of human-life or well-being, climate or environment, critical infrastructure, or strategic assets or resources. The AI output only provides the officer with complied public information. The AI outputs do not serve as a principal basis for a decision or action concerning a specific individual or entity that has a legal, material, binding, or similarly significant effect on that individual’s or entity’s civil rights, civil liberties or privacy, equal opportunities, or access to or the ability to apply for critical government resources or services.

Start date

2024-11-01 (day precision)Source: 2024-11-01T00:00:00

Withheld from public reporting

Not reported

Mission

Topic area

Administrative Functions

Operational functions

No function tag matched Derived by keyword rules; see methodology

Problem the AI is intended to solve

Provides situational awareness of open-source social media and news reporting to enhance CBP Screening, Vetting and security of the homeland.

Expected benefits

This tool significantly reduces the amount of time it takes for users to collect and compile commercially available open-source information when attempting to identify possible threats related to national security, border violence, CBP facilities, CBP employee safety and other topics with a CBP-nexus involving air, sea, and land travel to and/or from the U.S.

System outputs

The AI output is compiled publicly available information for awareness. CBP employees further research the information, including reading the source information, to determine if there is a possible threat.

Technology

AI classification

Natural language processingSource: Natural Language Processing: AI that processes, interprets, and shares information in human language.

System name(s)

Dataminr

Custom-developed code

No

Public source code

Not reported

Sourcing

How it was built

Purchased from vendorSource: a) Purchased from a vendor

Vendor (as reported)

Dataminr

Vendors (standardized)

DDataminr

A vendor is the supplier named by the agency. It does not identify the underlying model or AI technology.

Data and privacy

Involves PII

No

Privacy Impact Assessment

www.dhs.gov ↗

Authorization to Operate

Yes

Demographic features

Not reported

Training and evaluation data

Training data was collected from several publicly available, social media, and media outlet sites. This approach ensured the model was trained across several different groups representing an array of possible language types and vernaculars so as not to cause bias toward a specific demographic. Along with the above open-source data, the vendor leverages a mix of proprietary data to ensure the data is representative of real-world conditions and context.

Federal Data Catalog

Not reported

Governance

0 of 8 minimum-practice questions answered. A blank answer means the agency reported nothing; it does not mean the practice is absent.

Potential impacts and how they were identified

Not reported