KS: KU investigating release of private information

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2007/sep/19/ku_investigating_release_private_information/

A number of documents containing Kansas University student, faculty and 
staff personal information were sent Tuesday to the Lawrence 
Journal-World.

The information was accompanied by an anonymous letter, which said that 
the documents were recovered from the recycling and trash in the 
Mathematics Department at Kansas University. The letter, which purports to 
be from former department teaching assistants and current employees of the 
KU Recycling Center, said that several attempts to make the math 
department take better care of the information have gone unheeded.

[.]

The records sent to the Journal-World, and possibly two other area media 
outlets according to an accompanying letter, included student exams, 
student change of grade forms, class rosters, copies of health insurance 
cards, copies of immigration forms as well as a copy of a Social Security 
card.

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