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FBI Data Mining Financial Aid Records
Posted September 3, 2006 – 10:31 pm by Yakov Shafranovich in Politics, WebsiteFrom the NYT:
The Federal Education Department shared personal information on hundreds of student loan applicants with the Federal Bureau of Investigation across a five-year period that began after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, the agencies said yesterday.
Under the program, called Project Strikeback, the Education Department received names from the F.B.I. and checked them against its student aid database, forwarding information. Each year, the Education Department collects information from 14 million applications for federal student aid.
Note two things:
1. Federal financial aid is only for US citizens and permanent residents. At least for the US citizens full protections of the Constitution should apply.
2. Not a single investigation resulted from this (in other words it was a waste of time).
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