Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World Highlight

Poindexter was a technophile, and his Information Awareness Office brought private scraper tech under the state umbrella. In the name of efficient data sharing, TIA government fusion centers planned to draw together not just the various silos of public intelligence but also private records from commercial brokers, including and especially Acxiom. Ashcroft and the bipartisan deregulation consensus opened up a private backdoor that allowed the…