This is "Big Brother" type stuff here.

The initiative, which privacy groups call an unwarranted government intrusion into private life, will compile detailed information about high school students ages 16 to 18, all college students, and Selective Service System registrants. The collected information will include Social Security numbers, e-mail addresses, grade-point averages and ethnicities.

First, I thought they already had access to this information, or at least some of it. Second, this is a bold and invasive move and privacy experts are up in arms over it. I don't blame them. this is pretty scary stuff. I want our government to recruit, but this seems to cross the line a bit.

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