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No Privacy for US Poor, Homeless

Posted by TimSlavin at April 26, 2004

"Across the country, homeless shelters and other service providers are scrambling to implement an electronic homeless-management system by an October 2004 deadline set by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Those systems, according to HUD draft standards, will include information on homeless individuals' incomes, mental health histories, dates of birth and Social Security numbers. The databases would keep the information for seven years."

The irony is bitter: people who cannot afford a computer will lose their privacy with no apparent way to correct errors in their records. This also impacts battered spouses. The article includes a few links to more information. From Wired News.

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