From: kirniki (kirnikigmail.com)
Date: Tue Feb 23 2010 - 10:49:33 CST

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http://www.lfpress.com/news/london/2010/02/23/12991191.html

An armload of personal documents -- health records and criminal record
checks among them -- was found carelessly tossed out by a private
vocational school in London, an alarming breach of security, the
school's director says.

The bulk of the documents included criminal record checks,
transcripts, diplomas, doctors' notes, immunization and vaccination
forms, health card numbers and addresses of students or former
students.

A black garbage bag, open at the top and torn at the bottom, was found
Friday a metre or so from a dumpster behind Oxbury Mall, where the
private Medix School is located. Inside the bag, were the records of
at least 50 students.

Another garbage bag of documents could be seen inside an industrial
trash compactor, buried under other garbage.

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