New York Police Confidential Documents Used as Confetti

During the traditional Thanksgiving holiday parade in New York, one of the spectators was surprised to find that someone’s social security number was printed on a strip of paper confetti that fell on his friend’s shoulder. Together with a friend, they began to pick up paper tapes and quickly collected a whole collection of fragments of official police documents, which contained quite readable names and addresses of police officers, their social insurance numbers, badge numbers, bank accounts, reports of incidents and arrests. For someone's negligence, the documents were passed horizontally through a shredder, not horizontally, but thanks to which whole lines turned out to be quite readable.

Representatives of the police in New York have already stated that they are very concerned about such a gross violation of the rules for handling confidential information - among the fragments there could be information about police officers working under cover. An internal investigation has begun. Let me remind you that last week there was another blatant case of disregarding the rules of information security - in the photographs of one of the rooms of the Royal British Air Forces a sheet of paper hung on the wall with a login and password to enter one of the military computer systems.