What the web knows about you (& tells the world)

In this article by Robert Mitchell (computerworld.com) He writes about performing in depth web searches to see what results were returned. He was surprised to find everything from his SS# to digital signatures posted online. What surprised him most was that most of the guilty parties were the government & other businesses related to financial institutions.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9125058