ID theft rings scour toxic e-waste dumps for computer hard drives
Posted on July 2, 2009
Filed Under Uncategorized, wedding |
Every year millions of tons of discarded government, business and personally owned computers end up in one of the sprawling, smoldering e-waste dumps in developing countries. Your wedding photos may be in Ghana, resting against multi-million dollar defense contracts. Your financial records may be in India, buried beneath Homeland Security white papers. University of British Columbia journalism students visited dumps in Ghana, China and India, and, at every dump, they discovered criminal gangs
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ID theft rings scour toxic e-waste dumps for computer hard drives
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