Minor Children? BENow working with Pentagon to Collect info in Database

[liveoaktx]

Call BENOW at 800-660-5125 and ask them why they arecollecting information on Minors, for the military, without parental permission or notification?
Then call ALL your congressional reps and complain.

[Postman]

1. Who is BENOW?

n/t

[liveoaktx]

2. BeNow is the database company that is collecting info for the PENTAGON

http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/5471542.html

Pentagon building teen database for military recruiting

[teach1st]

3. Article about BeNow

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002345284_privacy23.html

Pentagon creating student database
By Jonathan Krim, 6/23/05

WASHINGTON — The Defense Department yesterday began working with a private marketing firm to create a database of all U.S. college students as well as high-school students between ages 16 and 18, to help the military identify potential recruits in a time of dwindling enlistment.

The program is provoking a furor among privacy advocates. The new database will include an array of personal information including birth dates, Social Security numbers, e-mail addresses, grade-point averages, ethnicity and what subjects the students are studying.

The data will be managed by Wakefield, Mass.-based BeNow, one of many marketing firms that use computers to analyze data to target potential customers based on their personal profiles and habits.

"The purpose of the system ... is to provide a single central facility within the Department of Defense to compile, process and distribute files of individuals who meet age and minimum school requirements for military service," according to the official notice of the program.

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[liveoaktx]

4. kicking this- This Database Collection Business MUST BE STOPPED

[liveoaktx]

6. I notice BeNow has removed their client list from the website

Tower Records and Hammacher-Schlemmer are two of the clients. Maybe they are worried about backlash for keeping records of MINORS.

[havocmom]

5. Must be parents are getting the word about signing those papers to prevent

the schools from turning over the info as per the NCLB laws. Good work Parents :thmbsup:

Now we gotta figre out how to stop the DOD from using data mining to undercut parental authority! Amazing, the wingers want parents to know if a teenager seeks birth control but think it's OK for recriters to court teens behind the parents' backs! Un-fucking-acceptable!

[liveoaktx]

7. BeNow gave me the number to call of Lt Colornel Ellen Kranke

at 703-697-5134

CALL and EXPRESS YOUR OPINION.
You realize this isn't just Pentagon information but has the potential to be a cradle to grave database of your kids to include school information and who knows what else? Maybe fed into whatever is the newest version of the Total Information Database?