Anthony Lydgate

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At one SSA office, a manager confirmed to his staff that he could no longer pay the company that shreds sensitive documents. “We print a lot of shit daily,” one SSA employee told WIRED. “Stuff with people’s names, addresses, phone numbers, SSNs, bank accounts, you name it. We have giant locking trash bins we put it in, and we pay a shredding company to empty them every month.” With the new $1 limit, the employee said, a “stockpile” of sensitive data was growing, leaving workers with two options: “Shred it ourselves on regular office shredders—of which we have two, I think, and so it would take forever—or just sit on it while it piles up.”
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