Illinois State workers' payroll records turn up in trash

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

Payroll records containing Social Security numbers of government workers were found in a state recycling Dumpster accessible to the public, Illinois' auditor general disclosed Tuesday.

The discovery came as a team of auditors hired by Auditor General William Holland toured the Springfield headquarters of the Department of Human Services and came upon the discarded data.

The paper recycling Dumpster in an open loading dock area contained payroll voucher reports with employee names and Social Security numbers, technical computer information and other confidential information.

As we've said before,nationalized health care will have the same sense of "privacy".