Loading ...Interesting story on Slashdot about how NASA JPL scientists have been “asked” to sign a privacy agreement to relinquish all privacy from their employer and allow investigation into their personal lives “without limit”.
Apparently 28 senior level scientists refused to sign the document by the deadline and are blogging about the progress in real time as they go, with 275 members currently on the list that support their efforts.
The odd part is that these are not scientists working on military projects with classified clearance… I can understand relinquishing privacy for work like that.
They are turning around and suing the government in response as well. Good luck to them.
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December 1st, 2007 at 3:58 pm
This concerned me so I read a few of the forms. The exact wording in Standard Form 85–which appears to be the disputed form–is..
“This information may include, but is not limited to…”
The verbage “without limit” does not seem to appear in the form. So it’s not necessarily that there aren’t limits, just that the named items are not intended to be all inclusive. Also of note is that the “AUTHORIZATION FOR RELEASE OF INFORMATION” header states “Revised September 1995″.