[Dataloss] POTENTIAL dataloss

[Henry Brown]

NO Losses YET but ...

And this is from a state that will ARREST people for putting sensitive 
employee data in the trash...


 From the Dallas Morning News
http://tinyurl.com/33wyee

Company gets kindergartners' Social Security numbers, data

Permission not needed to hand over Social Security info; TEA says it's safe

Texas school districts are handing over Social Security numbers, dates 
of birth and other sensitive information about the state's kindergarten 
students to a private software company without permission from the 
children's parents.

State education officials who set up the unusual arrangement insist that 
the information is safe. But some educators and parents worry about 
sending student Social Security numbers to a private company hired to 
store kindergarten reading test scores.

A privacy expert says thousands of 5- and 6-year-olds are vulnerable to 
identity theft as a result.

[...]

 OZ Systems, an Arlington software company, has received at least $2.3 
million in state money to create databases of preschool and kindergarten 
student records.

The new database for kindergarten test scores also includes sections for 
children's names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, gender, 
school identification numbers and parents' names and addresses, 
educators say.


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