Police to Get Access to Student Data
Michael D. Shear and Rosalind S. Helderman write in The Washington Post:
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.More here.
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.
posted by Fergie @ 6/20/2006 10:04:00 AM
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