The Scotsman wrote about a woman who returned home from the hospital to find a letter from the water company notifying her of her own death. While my guess is that this was a problem with information quality at the water, the breakdown could have happened at the hospital, in the government, or somewhere inbetween.  Regardless, it certainly is a black eye for data stewardship for someone.
Ignoring the recursive metaphysical implications of this situation, this really hits home how important information quality is in every organization.

NOTE: I originally spotted this on the upcoming page on Digg.

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