Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the federal government issued proposals to compile databases of personal information of people living in and traveling to the United States, including recording information of all of the nation�s college students and a new office in the Department of Homeland Security.

The Department of Education also made a recent plan for a database of personal information of all college students. The department proposed to make a database for information on all of the approximately 15 million students attending colleges and universities in the United States.