Data Integrity Board

The DHS Data Integrity Board (DIB) is responsible for approving and overseeing the use of computer matching programs by the Department of Homeland Security. Under the Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 1988, which amended the 1974 Privacy Act federal agencies must establish a DIB to oversee and approve their use of computer matching programs. With certain exceptions, a “matching program” is “any computerized comparison of two or more automated systems of records or a system of records with non-federal records for the purpose of establishing or verifying the eligibility of, or continuing compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements by, applicants for, recipients or beneficiaries of, participants in, or providers of services with respect to, cash or in-kind assistance or payments under federal benefit programs.