Trash A Treasure Trove of KU Student Information

Submitted by Adam Dodge on Thu, 2007-09-20 05:30

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The University of Kansas is apologizing to students and plans to launch an investigation to determine how files containing personal information on hundreds of students ended up in the trash. The files, obtained by the media along with an anonymous letter stating the files were pulled from the trains, contained names, copies of Social Security cards, final exams, and transcript release forms. According to Lynn Bretz, Director of University Communications, "We're launching a major initiative, the provost announced it several weeks ago, an information management initiative that's going to review our current guidelines."