Personal Shredder Ownership
I spent a good chunk of time this afternoon going through boxes of files, weeding out things like purchase receipts for items I no longer own, repair records for cars I no longer have, and so forth. Because I care about what happens to my personal information, all of the discarded records went into my little crosscut shredder.
As I was feeding the machine, I wondered: how long do you think it will be before shredders are no longer available to "civilians", and individual ownership of a shredder becomes illegal?
My prediction: at the current rate of "progress", it'll happen in my generation's lifetime.
Comments
And how much more time do you give open fire?
Posted by: ssp | June 3, 2006 04:59 PM
My wife works for a secure storage and shredding company, and I even make a utility to securely shred files, so I definitely find it important to erase unnecessary documents.
However, I don't see why you think that shredders will become illegal. I would think that they might become more and more important as identity theft is on the rise.
Posted by: Chad | June 3, 2006 06:57 PM
No reason to outlaw shredders when more and more of your information is not on paper. Already I get many bills electronically. Soon all bills will come that way for everyone.
Posted by: ROb | June 5, 2006 02:08 PM