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FBI Data Mining Students' Financial Aid Records
crumley writes "The U.S. Department of Education has been running a program that data mines student financial aid records for the FBI. The program, now five years old, is known as Project Strike Back. It trolls for names of suspected terrorists through the Education Department's database of information, which is derived from students who fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). The discovery of this program by Northwestern University journalism student Laura McGann has added fuel to the debate about the Education Department's proposal to start a new database tracking the academic progress of all students."
what ever happened to TRUST?
"You are asking the government to put you under a microscope in order to determine how much money they will have to give you to pay for your education. You can't just say "Hey, give me money, but don't ask anything about me.""
uhhh... what does that have to do with handing over the records to other government agencies so they can perform whatever other analysis they can dream up on you?
Or do you figure that when a person asks for help from the government they must forfeit all rights and human dignity?
No one has a right to their *own* opinion. They have a right to the TRUTH.