Total Poindexter Awareness

"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," reports Wired Magazine. After a journalist published John Poindexter's address and phone number in the San Francisco Weekly, hundreds of online prankstes and privacy activists are protesting the TIA program by re-posting the information, along with photos of his house and other personal information. (Don't bother calling his phone number; he's no longer answering.)