Comments on: Pentagon creates student database to find recruits

By: Pentagon to restrict student recruiting database - Homeland Stupidity

Pentagon to restrict student recruiting database - Homeland Stupidity — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:38:45 +0000

[...] The New York Civil Liberties Union brought a lawsuit against the government alleging that the Pentagon was collecting private information about high school students younger than 17 in violation of a 1982 privacy law. In settling the lawsuit last week, DoD agreed to restrict use of the Joint Advertising and Market Research Studies database to military recruiting purposes, to stop sharing the information in the database with law enforcement, intelligence and other government agencies, to stop collecting students’ Social Security numbers, and to provide a clear process for students to be removed from the database. [...]

By: No Child Left Unrecruited - Homeland Stupidity

No Child Left Unrecruited - Homeland Stupidity — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 08:55:17 +0000

[...] The Pentagon’s database includes birthdates, Social Security numbers, courses and majors, grade point averages, email addresses and ethnicity for high school and college students. The data is being collected and stored by BeNow, Inc., under contract. [...]

By: EPIC 2005 Privacy Year in Review - Homeland Security or Homeland Stupidity

EPIC 2005 Privacy Year in Review - Homeland Security or Homeland Stupidity — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 04:38:06 +0000

[...] EPIC 2005 Privacy Year in Review By: IO ERROR Posted: January 2, 2006 8:40 pm The Electronic Privacy Information Center has released its list of top privacy issues for 2005 as well as a list of the issues they expect to make headlines in 2006. As one might expect, most of them are issues covered regularly here.The alert highlights the Congressional battle over the PATRIOT Act reauthorization, the large number of data security breaches exposing people to identity theft, the Defense Department maintaining a database of students and conducting surveillance of peaceful activities, the State Department’s passport plans, and much more, as the top issues of 2005. [...]