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UT: Hundreds of Documents Found in Garbage with Personal Info - Part 2


From: d2d <d2d () attrition org>
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 20:02:33 +0000 (UTC)


http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=1577147

A truck driver has come forward, telling KSL about documents found in the 
trash. The documents contained names, addresses, telephone numbers, Social 
Security numbers and birth dates of dozens of Utahns.

So how did they end up where they were found? And what does Utah law say 
about what a business is required to do to stop such records from getting 
into the wrong hands?

The records are dated 2004 and 2005, all with Work Care of Orem's name and 
former address; they've moved a few blocks to the west since then.

The truck driver who found the papers says there were maybe hundreds of 
documents in his trash truck.

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