Friday, September 01, 2006

The FBI mined data on hundreds of student's federal aid

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/01/washington/01educ.html?ex=1314763200&en=44dfe85c44b33172&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

The Slashdot commentary is here:
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/06/09/01/176251.shtml

"This operation Strikeback confirms our worst fears about the uses to which these databases can be put," said David L. Warren, president of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, which represents 900 institutions. "The concentration of all this data absolutely invites use by other agencies of data that had been gathered for very specific and narrow purposes, namely the granting of student aid to needy kids."

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