government, you can't do an inside job and
pay employees. NO. you have to give the
contract to a capitalist, who knows how to
suck on government money.
So, you do the shredding. FINE. the paper
is yours to get rid of as you see fit. AND
pay for disposal. Well! One wise guy
saw an opportunity to sell the sensitive
bits of paper.
Ticker tape. Everybody loves a parade.
checkitout: Verge
Shredded
police documents found in Macy's Thanksgiving day parade confetti
By Nathan Ingrahamon November 26, 2012 10:13
am
The
endless streams of confetti that rained down during this year's Macy's
Thanksgiving day parade was more than just your average bits of torn paper —
according to New York news station WPIX-TV, parade-goers found that shredded
police documents from the Nassau County police department were mixed in with
the usual confetti. The shredded documents apparently contained plenty of
sensitive info that was easily identifiable, including social security numbers,
license plate numbers, incident reports, and even names of detectives — some of
which were found to be undercover. While all of the confetti has likely been
swept away by now, it's still a rather surprising mis-step for an agency in which
you'd expect security to be of the highest concern.
Macy's
couldn't confirm or deny whether it had used shredded police documents in the
parade, saying only that it uses "commercially manufactured, multicolor
confetti, not shredded paper." The Nassau County police department said
that it is "very concerned about the situation," and also said it
will be "conducting an investigation into this matter as well as reviewing
our procedures for the disposing of sensitive documents." Regardless of
how it happened, we'd expect that Macy's will be a lot more careful with its
confetti next year, and that the Nassau police department will take better care
of its sensitive documents in the future.
