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Pentagon Categorizing Students in Government Database
According to this morning's Washington Post, the Pentagon has begun working with a "private marketing firm" to create a database of all high school and college students in the United States. This new database has personal information including birth dates, GPAs, social security numbers, and the subjects a student is taking:
Privacy advocates said the plan appeared to be an effort to circumvent laws that restrict the government's right to collect or hold citizen information by turning to private firms to do the work.
I registered for the selective service (as required by law) a few years ago, and males are required to register in order to receive financial aid. But is this database really necessary?
· Pentagon Creating Student Database [Washington Post]
Posted in on June 23, 2005, 09:30 PM | Permalink
