[privacy] U.S. Dept. of Education Shared Student Data With FBI

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via The New York Times.

[snip]

The Federal Education Department shared personal information on
hundreds of student loan applicants with the Federal Bureau of
Investigation across a five-year period that began after the Sept. 11
terror attacks, the agencies said yesterday.

Under the program, called Project Strikeback, the Education Department
received names from the F.B.I. and checked them against its student aid
database, forwarding information. Each year, the Education Department
collects information from 14 million applications for federal student aid.

Neither agency would say whether any investigations resulted. The
agencies said the program had been closed. The effort was reported
yesterday by a graduate student, Laura McGann, at the Medill School of
Journalism at Northwestern University, as part of a reporting project
that focused on national security and civil liberties.

[snip]

More:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/01/washington/01educ.html

- ferg


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