The Anti-Gym was recently shuttered by the IRS for a failure to pay payroll taxes but it looks like the former clients of the gym were the real losers. That is because detailed and personal information was left in the dumpster behind the gym. This included the standard fodder for an identity thief. It also had some very personal information that clients had shared with their trainers. The information was stored in client files. The owner said he was not responsible for the documents ending in the dumpster because he was locked out by the IRS but witnesses disagree. [full story]

I hope that bankruptcy courts allow businesses to spend a little on a shredding service to protect the personal information a business maintains.

If you expect your lawyer to do the proper thing and shred your personal information then buyer beware. W. Dan Mahoney not only throws his clients information in the dumpster he doesn't know the law enough to know that trash is open for anyone to look through.

This just another example of a shredder collecting dust as personal information gets casually thrown away. Before you let a lawyer ask to see the bins from his shredding service or a log of their shredding for the last six months. If they really are shredding they should have history to that effect.