The US Military Wants You(r Data)

This week’s On The Media points to a story at MotherJones.com by David Goodman about the US military’s recruitment practices. Apparently George Bush’s 2001 ‘No Child Left Behind’ legislation mandates that all high schools send students’ personal information — including address, cell phone number, GPA, and social security number — to the military for data mining. It turns out the Pentagon — not as I would have thought MySpace of Facebook — has the largest repository of personal information on 16-24 year olds in the United States. Apparently it is illegal to recruit high school students into the military so the data mining allows the military to queue up potential converts the moment they graduate.

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