ICE Twitter Privacy Policy and Notice
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE or Agency) will use this Twitter feed for external relations (communications/outreach/public dialogue), to make information and services widely available to the general public, and promote transparency and accountability. ICE Office of Public Affairs serves as the executive agent for the ICE Twitter feed and controls who at the Agency has access to make changes to the page. The ICE Twitter feed is not intended to be a means by which ICE and the general public will communicate about individual matters.
Twitter is a third-party social networking tool and its privacy policy can be found at http://twitter.com/privacy. The DHS privacy policy and Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) govern the website's use of Twitter from a privacy perspective. The DHS privacy policy can be found at http://www.dhs.gov/xutil/gc_1157139158971.shtm#0. The DHS PIA “Use of Social Networking Interactions and Applications,” September 16, 2010, can be found at http://www.dhs.gov/privacy.
ICE will not use this Twitter feed to: 1) actively seek personally identifiable information (PII); 2) search Twitter for or by PII; and 3) “follow” public users proactively. ICE will use this Twitter feed to: 1) establish user names and passwords to form profiles and 2) interact on Twitter on official Agency business. Twitter users can choose to follow the ICE Twitter feed, which will provide them with the information DHS delivers on the ICE Twitter feed.
Only ICE provides content through this Twitter feed. Any other Twitter user has the ability to re-“tweet” (i.e., republish) or comment on content provided by ICE through the ICE Twitter feed. ICE does not moderate public comments which refer to comments posted in the ICE Twitter feed. Comments made on Twitter are public. To protect your privacy and the privacy of others, do not include full names, phone numbers, email addresses, social security numbers, case numbers or any other sensitive PII of any individuals in your tweets or comments.
This page was last reviewed / modified on March 16, 2012.
