After reading the LISD story this morning about the release of 24,000 student social security numbers to the TEA and UT at Dallas, I was shocked that the most important question was never asked by a reporter.
The story, if you did not read it, is as follows:
LISD released the names and social security numbers of the ENTIRE LISD student body (24,000 plus names and SSN's on disc) to the Texas Education Agency at the request of a research group at the University of Texas at Dalla. The CD was sent to TEA in Austin, but was lost.
Yep, if your kid goes to LISD a CD with their name and social security number (and who know what other information) is lost somewhere in Austin, maybe? Hopefully you have the resources to do a credit check on your kid to find out if identiy theft might be an issue here. Better to check now that discover in a few months that your child has had a credit card(s) issued to them and bills have be run up on that card.?
The big question that no one, repeat no one asked, is WHY did UT-Dallas want the information and what were they going to do with it. If UT-Dallas only wanted student information, and not the social security numbers, WHY did LISD provide the SSN's?
Is there no one in our local media that has an inquisitive mind? Or do they just print/broadcast whatever is fed to them by those they are writing/broadcasting about?
Laredo, this is a big deal and you should complain to your media that they are not doing their jobs.
More on this later.
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