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patrickg on Jan 30, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: US bars friends over Twitter joke

That reminds me of a story of a relative, who was working in a local German bank (Sparkasse). They were screening the text on money transfers (Überweisung) for words like "anthrax". I couldn't believe that they had such an order.

GFischer on Jan 30, 2012 [–]

I work for an insurance company, and we have similar stupid orders.

They're mostly to show the U.S. that we're cooperating on anti-terrorism and avoid being put on blacklists, no-one expects us to catch anything.

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