Confidential Data Destruction
When disposing of personal data, a company must ensure it complies with certain obligations under the seventh principal of the Data Protection Act, which states that when appointing a person or company as the Data Processor, the Data Controller must seek guarantees, regarding their technical and organisational measures against unauthorised or unlawful processing of personal data against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, personal data.
In this day and age of identity theft, proper disposal of private information is a must. All businesses are entrusted with information that must be kept private. Everyone, employees and customers have the legal right to have this data protected. Without the proper safeguards, information ends up in the dumpster where it is readily, and legally, available to anybody. The trash is considered by business espionage professionals as the single most available source of competitive and private information from the average business, and homeowners alike.
Anyone that discards private and proprietary data without the benefit
of destruction exposes themselves to the risk of criminal and civil prosecution,
as well as the costly loss of business. Types of business documents that
need shredding are payroll data, personal files and customer lists, financial
statements, bank statements, competitive price comparisons, R&D reports,
sales reports, forecast marketing plans, etc.
"Our purpose built tyre shredding system supplied by Industrial Shredding Systems has elevated our company to a new level of efficiency and purpose. The Company’s relationship with Industrial Shredding Systems has been outstanding, with particular attention to system support and proactiveness."
Mr P Buick,
Executive Director,
Disposal Operations,
DME Tyres Ltd