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(Via Random Reflective Rantings and Damien.)

Irish courts take tough line on data protection

The Register: The Irish legal system has deployed the ultimate weapon in the war against inadvertent loss of confidential data – a foolproof system of outside contractors coupled to shredders which ensures that no potentially sensitive information is ever read by anyone.

In a successful test run of the new scheme last week, all of the mail delivered to Dublin’s Four Courts on Tuesday was destroyed without being opened. The Courts Service later attributed the trashing to “an outside contractor [who] mistakenly added two bags of mail to bags of documents for shredding”.

The service is now rather marvellously “asking people who may have sent post to the Four Courts in the past few days to find out whether it was received or not”, as RTÉ explains.

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“Dear Mr. Prime”

Dear Mr. Prime,

We have received your accident-claim reports for the month of June—they total 27. I regret to inform you that GEICO will not be able to reimburse you for any of those repairs. I feel that I have sent the same letter to you once a month for the last six months, and I am now sending it again.

Since becoming a GEICO customer in January of this year, you have reported 131 accidents, requesting reimbursement for repairs necessitated by each one. You have claimed not to be responsible in any of them, usually listing the cause of the accident as either “Sneak attack by Decepticons” or “Unavoidable damage caused by protecting freedom for all sentient beings.”

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