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Social Insecurity: Office Workers Toss SSNs During Ticker Tape Parade
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Jen Chung
Published Feb 8, 2012
Modified Feb 8, 2012
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Yesterday's ticker tape parade for the Super Bowl XLVI Championship Giants was boisterous and loud. But our embedded reporters noticed that whole pieces of paper were thrown out of windows, instead of locally-sourced confetti or shredded paper—in fact, in some instances, it seemed like someone opened up a new ream of paper and threw a stack of sheets out. Now, Inside Edition has discovered that at least some office workers were throwing papers with people's personal information—like SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS—out during the revelry!
In a segment that airs today at noon (channel 5, MyFoxNY), Inside Edition's Paul Boyd dug through some of the celebratory detritus with a former FBI investigator, "Sensitive documents were being thrown out of windows—information regarding people’s medical records and social security numbers, and even information about a 54-year-old woman’s mammogram, all with specific details you probably wouldn’t want aired in public."
Offices: GET SHREDDERS.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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