WASHINGTON – Lea’Tice Phillips, of Montgomery County, Ala., was sentenced to serve 94 months of incarceration today, announced Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Keneally of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama George L. Beck Jr. Phillips was also ordered to …Read more
Iron Mountain and Shred-It have agreed to pay $1.1 million to settle a lawsuit claiming that the companies defrauded the United States government for document shredding services. A third defendant, Cintas Corporation is continuing to contest the allegations. This constitutes the three largest providers of shredding in …Read more
As Hard drives grow in storage and decrease in price daily companies and individuals ask what do I do with my old hard drives? If you wipe your (format, fdisk or delete) data, then donate or sell the drives, your data is not completely gone; the right …Read more
This video explains how the NAID Information Destruction Training Program provides an easy and effective system for complying with the training requirements of all major US data protection regulations, including HIPAA, the FACTA Final Disposal Rule, GLB, Regulation S-P, the FACTA Red Flags Rule. http://youtu.be/v26jv2IA1GY
Should your business outsource shredding? In the 21st century, securing privacy is more important than ever with hackers and identity theft on the rise in numbers and sophistication. In addition, the United States government has introduced legislation that regulates the traffic of private information in order to …Read more
Here’s another egregious example of a health care provider being nothing less than reckless with patient data.Last August a Greensboro, NC resident was looking for cans when he found boxes and boxes of unshredded patient data stuffed in a dumpster. The files belonged to a local urgent …Read more
Shredding is more complex than simply destroying documents and forgetting about them. Having your shredding in house can be done but poses risks and wasted productivity by not focusing on core competencies of your business. While there may not be any monetary costs associated with shredding in …Read more
