A Whole New Ball Game

SAN FRANCISCO – A U.S. State Department employee in San Francisco is facing charges that he looked up the passport applications of more than 100 celebrities in the government records system.

Authorities say Macias worked for the passport agency for 24 years, most recently as a fraud prevention manager. They say he logged into the system 168 times to view and sometimes print out celebrity applications.

When information becomes even more of a black market product, this is what we have to look forward to. Right now our peon status doesn't make us that interesting to most folks.  That will change.