Homeless People Do Have Privacy Rights
Civil liberty and privacy advocates came to the defense of the homeless. They responded to the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) announcement of their Homeless Management Information Systems, a plan to collect data on people served by homeless shelters. HUD officials stated that their interest was in collecting aggregate data to determine if the capacity of programs serving the homeless was adequate. Last year HUD spent $23 million for 142 data collection projects.
Social services hit privacy snag, Federal Computer Week, August 23, 2004
