July 8, 2005
Pentagon System to Gather Student Data Raises Privacy Fears
The Department of Defense announced in May that it was collecting information about high-school and college students for a database designed to aid military recruiting, which some higher-education officials say violates students' privacy rights.
The database compiles personal information about all college students, as well as about high-school students ages 16 to 18. As first reported in The Washington Post in June, the database includes students' birth dates, Social Security numbers,
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