San Francisco Bay Area latest target of illegal Bush administration data theft program.

Aug. 18, 2006 -- The covert program to steal personal data on Americans to populate a highly secretive NSA/Homeland Security Total Information Awareness surveillance database continues at a frenetic pace. The FBI, under orders to leave these thefts alone, sits idly by as more and more data is stolen from government agencies and corporations. The San Francisco Bay Area has been particularly hard hit in the latest rash of personal data thefts.

The latest victim is Chevron of San Ramon, California which has reported the theft of a laptop computer from an independent auditor that potentially contains "tens of thousands" of files on Chevron employees' retirement, savings, and disability programs. Included in the data are Social Security Numbers, dates of birth, and sensitive financial information. "U.S. payroll employees of the firm are affected and they number approximately 29,000. San Francisco-based William-Sonoma said an employee of Deloitte-Touche had a laptop computer stolen in Los Angeles that contained the financial information and Social Security Numbers of 1200 Williams-Sonoma employees. Kaiser Permanente in Oakland reported a laptop stolen that contained medical record numbers and dates of birth of 160,000 Kaiser patients.
San Francisco Bay Area latest target of illegal Bush administration data theft program.

The indifference of the outlaw Bush administration in investigating hundreds of similar thefts is an indication of its complicity in the illegal program to acquire personal data on millions of Americans.

WMR's data theft chart has been updated.

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