GPIQWG Resources:
About GPIQWG:
The Global Privacy and Information Quality Working Group (GPIQWG) is one of five Global working groups. GPIQWG is a cross-functional, multidisciplinary working group of Global and is composed of privacy and local, state, tribal, and federal justice entity representatives covering critical topics such as intelligence, biometrics, information quality, privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties. GPIQWG assists government entities, institutions, and other justice agencies in ensuring that personally identifiable information is appropriately collected, maintained, used, and disseminated within evolving integrated justice information systems.
GPIQWG is committed to helping agencies reduce the privacy risks associated with justice agency use of biometric technologies, including familial DNA searching. The following two GPIQWG biometric products, currently available, were developed to promote awareness of the topic, present privacy risks and issues for consideration, and include resource lists for follow-up. These are located at
www.it.ojp.gov/biometricsprivacy.
- Privacy and Information Quality Risks: Justice Agency Use of Biometrics
- An Introduction to Familial DNA Searching for State, Local, and Tribal Justice Agencies: Issues for Consideration
Next to debut in the GPIQWG biometric series is Privacy Principles of Familial DNA Searching: Privacy, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties Policy Development Template. After completion of a case study in 2011 to develop a privacy protections policy for the Colorado Bureau of Investigation’s familial DNA (F-DNA) search capability, GPIQWG leveraged this experience to develop a model privacy policy template uniquely designed for familial DNA searching. GPIQWG privacy professionals and esteemed biometric, DNA, and familial DNA searching subject-matter experts (SMEs) collaborated in the development of this template,which is currently being finalized, to provide a practical tool for justice entities drafting F-DNA searching privacy policies. Through this effort, SLT entities can ensure that privacy rights are protected by establishing and adhering to privacy provisions that address the quality of DNA samples typed, analyzed, and received; the integrity of the process and procedure of F-DNA searching; and security, guidance, and protocols for the release and use of sensitive F-DNA searching results. A comprehensive F-DNA searching privacy policy applies baseline privacy principles to ensure that subject individuals and their families are protected.
To accomplish justice information sharing that promotes the administration of justice and public protection by:
- Preserving the integrity and quality of information.
- Facilitating the sharing of appropriate and relevant information.
- Protecting individuals from consequences of inappropriate gathering, use, and release of information.
- Permitting appropriate oversight.
To advance the adoption of privacy and information quality policies by justice system participants that promote the responsible collection, handling, management, review, and sharing of (personal) information about individuals.
The Honorable Anthony Capizzi, Chair
Montgomery County, Ohio, Juvenile Court
Phillip Stevenson, Ph.D, Vice Chair
Arizona Criminal Justice Commission