Not quite, I did a search inspired by Tim Harford’s Cautionary Tales podcast, Laser vs Parchment: https://timharford.com/2023/11/cautionary-tales-laser-versus-

Not quite, I did a search inspired by Tim Harford’s Cautionary Tales podcast, Laser vs Parchment: https://timharford.com/2023/11/cautionary-tales-laser-versus-parchment-doomsday-for-the-disc/ https://timharford.com/2023/11/cautionary-tales-laser-versus... Which contrasted this with the Windrush scandal where the Home Office destroyed the legal documents of people welcomed from the Caribbean in the Sixties, and in their absence started to deport them. Update: that is an excellent video, setting the context of the problem and walking through the fix. I doubt I would have found it.