[privacy] Rumsfeld sued over Pentagon's recruiting database

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () bsf-llc com>]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060424/pl_nm/arms_usa_database_dc_1

By Daniel Trotta 
1 hour, 4 minutes ago

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Six New York teen-agers sued     Pentagon chief Donald
Rumsfeld on Monday, alleging the U.S.     Department of Defense broke the
law by keeping an extensive database on potential recruits. 

The suit in federal court in Manhattan follows a series of allegations last
year of misconduct by recruiters, who have experienced difficulty meeting
targets because of the war in     Iraq.

The Pentagon last year acknowledged it had created a database of 12 million
Americans, full of personal data such as grades and     Social Security
numbers, to help find potential military recruits.

The Pentagon has defended the practice as critical to the success of the
all-volunteer U.S. military, and said it was sensitive to privacy concerns.

But the suit alleges the Pentagon improperly collected data on people as
young as 16 and kept it beyond a three-year limit, and said that the law
does not allow for keeping records on race, ethnicity, gender or social
security numbers.

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