"Critical infrastructure is defined in the USA PATRIOT Act (P.L. 107-56, Sec. 1016(e)) as
“systems and assets, physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that the incapacity or
destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, national
economic security, national public health and safety, or any combination of those matters.”
Presidential Decision Directive 63, or PDD-63, identified activities whose critical infrastructures
should be protected: information and communications; banking and finance; water supply;
aviation, highways, mass transit, pipelines, rail, and waterborne commerce; emergency and law
enforcement services; emergency, fire, and continuity of government services; public health
services; electric power, oil and gas production; and storage. In addition, the PDD identified four
activities in which the federal government controls the critical infrastructure: (1) internal security
and federal law enforcement; (2) foreign intelligence; (3) foreign affairs; and (4) national defense..."
Cybersecurity
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
National Security Presidential Directive and Homeland Security Presidential Directive: Biometrics for Identification and Screening to Enhance National Security
"This directive establishes a framework to ensure that Federal executive departments and agencies (agencies) use mutually compatible methods and procedures in the collection, storage, use, analysis, and sharing of biometric and associated biographic and contextual information of individuals in a lawful and appropriate manner, while respecting their information privacy and other legal rights under United States law."
"This directive establishes a framework to ensure that Federal executive departments and agencies (agencies) use mutually compatible methods and procedures in the collection, storage, use, analysis, and sharing of biometric and associated biographic and contextual information of individuals in a lawful and appropriate manner, while respecting their information privacy and other legal rights under United States law."
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