Pentagon Building Teen Database

Not content with the information being collected under the ‘No Child Left Behind’ Act, the Pentagon has contracted a private marketing firm to build a database of every American high school and college student between the ages of 16 and 18. Ostensibly for the purposes of recruiting fresh blood for the war machine, the database will contain such personal information as Social Security numbers, e-mail addresses, grade point averages, ethnicity and what subjects the students are studying.

WASHINGTON, DC – The Defense Department began working Wednesday with a private marketing firm to create a database of all U.S. college students and high school students between 16 and 18 years old, to help the military identify potential recruits in a time of dwindling enlistment in some branches.

The program is provoking a furor among privacy advocates. The new database will include an array of personal information including birth dates, Social Security numbers, e-mail addresses, grade point averages, ethnicity and what subjects the students are studying .

The data will be managed by BeNow Inc. of Wakefield, Mass., one of many marketing firms that use computers to analyze large amounts of data to target potential customers based on their personal profiles and habits.

“The purpose of the system … is to provide a single central facility within the Department of Defense to compile, process and distribute files of individuals who meet age and minimum school requirements for military service,” according to the official notice of the program.

Privacy advocates said the plan appeared to be an effort to circumvent laws that restrict the government’s right to collect or hold citizen information by turning to private firms to do the work.

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