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Medical documents found in confetti for women’s soccer parade

Posted on July 12, 2015 by Dissent

Well, this is not the first time we’ve seen personal information in a ticker tape parade.  We saw it in 2009 when the Yankees were honored in the Canyon of Heroes and some folks dumped unshredded or inadequately shredded  papers. It also happened during the 2012 NY Giants Super Bowl parade and then the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade.

Now WMAZ reports that something similar happened Friday when the U.S. women’s soccer team had their parade:

This is what caught 2 Wants To Know’s attention, a reporter tweeted out a picture of strips of confetti that make up entire prescriptions. Patient names, doctor office address. Why were medical records part of the confetti?

Read more on WMAZ.

h/t, @VERISDB

 

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