Man Who Wants Database Has His Personal Info Splashed On Web!

Wired.COM ^ | December 15 2002 | By Paul Boutin

[ConservativeMan55]

The head of the government's Total Information Awareness project, which aims to root out potential terrorists by aggregating credit-card, travel, medical, school and other records of everyone in the United States, has himself become a target of personal data profiling.

[ConservativeMan55]

Bwahahahaha!

[summer]

Thanks for posting this. I almost did, but I'm glad you beat me to it. :)

[summer]

PS GREAT article! :)

[ConservativeMan55]

No Problem! This is great stuff!

[DAnconia55]

ROFL! Kick ass!

But wait, the BrownShirtz will be along shortly on this thread. Watch :)

[independentmind]

BUMP

[ConservativeMan55]

I'm trying to figure out how to add topics to this thread. Example like "Breaking News" or "Current Events" I see the button to add them, but I don't know the right abbreviations.

[ConservativeMan55]

[independentmind]

Is your graphic in #8 for real?

[Jarhead_22]

This might be the dictionary definition of "biblical justice."

[ConservativeMan55]

Biblical Justice eh? Very estute of you to mention that!

[wretchard]

Actually, it proves that the SF Weekly has the right to amass this much information about John Poindexter -- and about you, if its editors saw fit. Naturally, John Poindexter has no right to acquire the same information about columnist Matt Smith.

It also proves that John Poindexter has a $269,700 house, which is totally incomprehensible, since any celebrity journalist can spend as much for a doghouse. "Why, for example, is their $269,700 Rockville, Md., house covered with artificial siding, according to Maryland tax records? Shouldn't a Reagan conspirator be able to afford repainting every seven years?" I guess the information gathering game doesn't pay too well.

There may a lot of good reasons for objecting to the Total Information Awareness project, but media pique is not one of them. If I had a penny for every time they sold my database to marketers, I would be a rich man.

[ConservativeMan55]

I've heard about this. Don't they keep all your Temporary Internet Files and Cookies, and then sell them to marketers, who in turn create custom pop up ads of things they think you would be interested in?

[reagandemocrat]

Awesome.

RD

[Jarhead_22]

Haven't you ever considered how great it would be to turn the information war against the warriors? If I was one of the pseudocelebrities that is constantly stalked by papparazzi, I would simply hire a private detective to dig up everything -everything- on the people who were making it impossible for me to kiss a girl or drink a cup of coffee in peace, and let them know I had it. Whose life can withstand that kind of scrutiny?

[summer]

RE your post #7 - I added it as "front page news," so it should now be on the sidebar.

[summer]

And, I see it now on the sidebar, under "FRONT PAGE NEWS."

[hove]

Oh this is too rich! This a-hole getting a taste of his own sour medicine.