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Thursday, November 15, 2007

House Committee Passes Foxx Student Privacy Amendment
The House Education Committee has unanimously adopted an amendment offered by Congresswoman Virginia Foxx that will ban the creation of a nation-wide database of college students’ personal information. The amendment to the College Opportunity and Affordability Act aims to protect the privacy rights of college students by keeping their personal and private information out of a massive federal database.
In a news release, Foxx said, “College students should not be forced to participate in a huge national database that catalogues their personally identifying information. It would be a terrible mistake to address the cost of education, but ask students to forfeit their privacy in the process. This amendment adds vital privacy protections to a bill that is focused on the rising cost of college education.”
Rep. Foxx’s amendment will prohibit the Secretary of Education from creating a national database of personal information from students that receive federal aid under the higher education bill.

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