Pentagon Creating Student Database

[Twist_U_Up]

All your children belong to us.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/22/AR2005062202305.html

The Defense Department began working yesterday with a private marketing firm to create a database of high school students ages 16 to 18 and all college students to help the military identify potential recruits in a time of dwindling enlistment in some branches.

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

The Defense Department began working yesterday with a private marketing firm to create a database of high school students ages 16 to 18 and all college students to help the military identify potential recruits in a time of dwindling enlistment in some branches.

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

[Spinzonner]

1. Which makes me wonder what John Poindexter's doing these days

[cornermouse]

2. This is so wrong in so many ways for a "free" nation.

I don't recognize America any more.