Giant database of school children. What could go wrong?

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Submission + - Giant database of school children. What could go wrong? (reuters.com) 1

Submitted by asjk on Monday March 04, 2013 @05:08AM

asjk writes: The database includes millions of children and documents their names, addresses, disabilities and other statistics and demographics.Federal law, the article reports, allows for files to be shared with private companies. This, it is further reported, is already underway.

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