The Pentagon's New Database is Illegal=An important action alert from ActForChange.com

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Mary Riley wrote: Mercy! This is appalling. And since I don't think groups

accept the email I sent from the site, I'll just send it this way.

 

Scrap the Pentagon's New Database

 

Contributed by Working Assets

 

Last month, the Pentagon announced that since 2002 it has secretly been

compiling a database containing the personal information of tens of millions of

Americans as young as 16 years of age. The database includes information such as

Social Security numbers, height, weight, ethnicity, grade-point averages, e-mail

addresses and phone numbers.

The custody and maintenance of this database has been contracted out to a

private firm named BeNow. BeNow has no privacy policy posted to its website, nor

a privacy or security officer listed on its management team.

The Defense Department now proposes a wide range of " routine uses " for this

database, including disclosure of records contained in the database for

functions wholly unrelated to recruitment. Although individuals can opt-out of

recruitment solicitations, there is no way to opt-out of this enormous database

as a whole.

Compilation of this database is not only a spooky invasion of our families'

privacy, it's also a violation of the law. The Federal Privacy Act requires that

government agencies accept public comment before new records systems are created

-- a requirement that was blatantly ignored in this case.

The DOD should scrap this mega-database of young Americans, and rely upon

traditional mass-media advertising to reach potential recruits.

 

Call to action

Tell your representative to investigate this violation of the Privacy Act and

force the Pentagon to scrap this intrusive and illegal database.

 

To take action on this issue, click this link or copy and

paste it into your browser:

 

http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/action.cfm?itemid=19269

 

 

 

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