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From: Henry Brown <hbrown () knology net>
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:15:11 -0600
NO Losses YET but ... And this is from a state that will ARREST people for putting sensitive employee data in the trash... From the Dallas Morning News http://tinyurl.com/33wyee Company gets kindergartners' Social Security numbers, data Permission not needed to hand over Social Security info; TEA says it's safe Texas school districts are handing over Social Security numbers, dates of birth and other sensitive information about the state's kindergarten students to a private software company without permission from the children's parents. State education officials who set up the unusual arrangement insist that the information is safe. But some educators and parents worry about sending student Social Security numbers to a private company hired to store kindergarten reading test scores. A privacy expert says thousands of 5- and 6-year-olds are vulnerable to identity theft as a result. [...] OZ Systems, an Arlington software company, has received at least $2.3 million in state money to create databases of preschool and kindergarten student records. The new database for kindergarten test scores also includes sections for children's names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, gender, school identification numbers and parents' names and addresses, educators say. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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