Pentagon collecting data on students

Pentagon collecting data on students

Privacy advocates blast creation of recruiting list

By Jonathan Krim
THE WASHINGTON POST

June 23, 2005

WASHINGTON – The Defense Department began working with a private marketing firm yesterday 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 an array of personal information including birth dates, Social Security numbers, e-mail addresses, grade-point averages, ethnicities, and what subjects the students are studying.

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

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