...or if you prefer the CBS News headline Teen Database Worries Critics
The Defense Department, faced with enlistment shortfalls, is working with a private company to collect information on high school students ages 16-to-18 and all college students.
The database will be managed by BeNow Inc. of Wakefield, Mass. and will include birth dates, Social Security numbers, e-mail addresses, grade-point averages, ethnicity and what subjects the students are studying.
Additional data in the new system will be collected from commercial data brokers, state drivers' license records and other sources, including information already held by the military, the (Washington) Post reports.
...the military provides no guarantees it will not turn over the information to law enforcement, counterintelligence and other government agencies... the Federal Register notice says the military retains the right to do so.
"Without your consent the Defense Department can take data out of the system and share it with other agencies," (Chris Jay Hoofnagle, a director with the Electronic Privacy Information Center said.)
Posted by Cieciel at June 24, 2005 03:55 AM