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GLOSSARY-4
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U.
Key Resources
: Publicly or privately controlled resources essential to the minimal
operations of the economy and government.
V.
Mail Cover
: The non-consensual recording of any data appearing on the outside
cover of any sealed or unsealed mail matter. In this context, a “recording” means a
transcription, photograph, photocopy, or other facsimile of the image of the outside
cover, envelope, or wrappers of mail matter. It does not include the opening or
examination of mail matter.
W.
Major Disaster
: Any natural catastrophe (including any hurricane, tornado, storm,
high water, wind-driven water, tidal wave, tsunami, earthquake, volcanic eruption,
landslide, mudslide, snowstorm, or drought) or, regardless of any cause, any fire,
flood, or explosion in any part of the United States, which, in the determination of
the President, causes damage of sufficient severity and magnitude to warrant major
disaster assistance under Title 42, United States Code, Chapter 68, “Disaster Relief,”
to supplement the efforts and available resources of States, local governments, and
disaster relief organizations in alleviating the damage, loss, hardship, or suffering
caused thereby.
X.
Overt Collection
: Collection that is openly acknowledged by or readily attributable
to the United States Government or that would be acknowledged in response to an
express inquiry. Acknowledgment may include advising of United States Government
affiliation (confirming the collector’s affiliation with an intelligence element is not
required, so long as United States Government affiliation is acknowledged) or
advising of a general collection activity applicable to that individual (rather than
advising of specific acquisition methods, sites, or processes being used, or other
details about the collection). For example, I&A might conduct physical surveillance at
a DHS facility based on notice to I&A employees, but it would not need to notify a
particular employee that he or she was the subject of the surveillance.
Collection conducted under circumstances where, although there has been no express
inquiry, it would be misleading not to disclose affiliation with the United States
Government (e.g., collection through observation or elicitation at an event designed
for or mostly attended by a private sector audience) is only overt where the collector
affirmatively discloses his or her affiliation with the United States Government
.
Y.
Physical Surveillance
: The deliberate observation of an individual to track his or
her movement or other physical activities while they are occurring under
circumstances in which a person has no reasonable expectation of privacy.
Z.
Publicly Available Information
: Information that has been published or broadcast
for public consumption, is available on request to the public, is accessible on-line or
otherwise to the public, is available to the public by subscription or purchase, could
be seen or heard by any casual observer, is made available at a meeting open to the