Re: [privacy] Police to Get Access to Student Data

["Mary Landesman" <mlande () bellsouth net>]

This is pretty disturbing - especially since it affects *prospective* 
students. If you apply and get accepted, even if you don't enroll, your data 
gets sent over. It would be slightly more palatable if it impacted only 
those students who (a) elected to enroll and (b) had been explicitly 
informed of the intended disclosure.

Virginia: Apply at your own risk.

-- Mary

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
To: <privacy () whitestar linuxbox org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 1:06 PM
Subject: [privacy] Police to Get Access to Student Data


> Via The Washington Post.
>
> [snip]
>
> Virginia's public and private colleges and universities soon will be
> required to submit the names and Social Security numbers of tens of
> thousands of students they accept each year to state police for
> cross-checking against sexual offender registries.
>
> The little-noticed but groundbreaking law is raising concerns among
> privacy experts about giving police access to a vast new database of
> student information. They say the data could be stored permanently on
> hard drives and mishandled, stolen or used for unrelated homeland
> security or law enforcement purposes.
>
> [snip]
>
> More:
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/19/AR2006061901429.html
>
> - ferg
>
>
>
> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
> Engineering Architecture for the Internet
> fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
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