Please post your comments to this story as i’m curious to everyones thoughts on this….

It appears that an Atlanta law firm needed to get rid of some documentation that had been piling up in the office.  We are talking about documentation like W2′s that contain social security numbers and a number of other sensitive information.  According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution there was enough documentation that piled five or six feet deep in a 10 by 20 foot dumpster.  The person in charge of disposing the documentation was interviewed and his statement was…

I was just instructed to dispose of the documents and my understanding was it was a secure site because it’s a very high and large dumpster,” he said. “My understanding is that once stuff goes in nobody can take anything out because it’s very deep.

Are you kidding me?? This is scary since we are talking about a law firm for one and then someone who just isn’t using common sense.  Would he want his W2 or the information on the W2 to be disposed of in this manner?

The rest of the story can be read here.