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Comment by WirelessGigabit

This reminds me of Federal Public Service Finance of Belgium.

When they take possession of items for various reasons they want to sell them off to reclaim lost tax revenue.

Cars for example, now you must know that in Europe for some reason people are very weary of their VIN. It's not shown on websites as it is in the USA.

So the tax office posts a PDF with all the cars they possessed with their VINs, but with 80% blacked out.

With black boxes.

And they didn't flatten the PDF.

Sending around data is a minefield. Metadata everywhere. It's so easy to lose track of it.

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