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Old Feb 3rd, 2007, 22:57   #1
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Visa Applications & Privacy

Some rather depressing news in yesterday's San Francisco Chronicle: it seems the Indian Consulate here does not consider visa applications to be "private information" and discard the year-old paperwork at a local recycling center

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...sn=001&sc=1000
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Old Jul 25th, 2007, 04:30   #2
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Identity theft goldmine: SF Consulate dumps visa applications at recycling center

Came across this wonderful info while searching for the SF Consulate address.
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Indian Consulate dumped visa applications from business, political figures at S.F. facility

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Thousands of visa applications and other sensitive documents, including paperwork submitted by top executives and political figures, sat for more than a month in the open yard of a San Francisco recycling center after they were dumped there by the city's Indian Consulate.
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a sampling of documents obtained by The Chronicle indicate that the boxes contained confidential paperwork for virtually everyone in California and other Western states who applied for visas to travel to India between 2002 and 2005.
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At the Indian Consulate, Consul General Prakash said there may be a cultural dimension to the level of outrage related to the incident among Western visa applicants.

"In India, I would not be alarmed," he said. "We have grown up giving such information in many, many places. We would not be so worried if someone had our passport number."

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I believe I posted a link to the article in February, when it was news! Haven't heard anything since then; perhaps they've bought a shredder.
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Haven't heard anything since then; perhaps they've bought a shredder.

.........or a new dumpster.
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