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Simon Stammers, sales director at document capture company and authorised AnyDoc reseller Formscan, said that while the law laid down strict rules for businesses on how long they should store certain information, there were only guidelines for disposing of data.
"This policy has to be driven by the board of directors and it is down to an organisation to develop its own policy for this," he said.

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) requires all businesses to keep invoices and records of commercial transaction for seven years, but no recommendations have been given for other records, such as HR documents or pensions information.
The lack of retention guidance also leaves businesses at risk of hanging onto time-expired data for fear of deleting it too early.

Stammers said that the Data Protection Act was unclear about whether data should be destroyed or not, advising businesses to satisfy the regulator but also take the approach that was commercially right for each set of documents.

Electronics recycling comes to Vail

Paper shredding is being added this year for residents who wish to shred documents in an environmentally friendly manner. Get the Lead Out will be hosted in Vail from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday at the town of Vail Municipal Building parking lot.Prior to stopping in Vail, the event will take place in Eagle at the City Market parking lot from noon-6 p.m. on Friday.The electronics recycling is provided by Guaranteed Recycling Xperts of Denver. GRX disassembles the electronics into its core components with a goal of 100 percent recycling. GRX ensures data security by physically destroying the hard drive and will provide a certificate guaranteeing the destruction of the disk. This service is $5 per computer or small printer, $10 for monitors (up to 17 inches) and larger printers.Very large items may cost more.

Shred for Good, PRI offer 'Free Shred Day'

PRI Productions and a division of a Clay county nonprofit organization are offering free document shredding Wednesday at PRI's San Marco offices.

Shred for Good, which employs the disabled at its secure document shredding operation in Green Cove Springs, will set up containers in PRI's parking lot on Kings Avenue to collect documents as well as compact discs, computer hard drives and DVDs. Shred for Good, which is a division of Challenge Enterprises of North Florida Inc., will be at PRI collecting documents and computer equipment from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 4.

Nancy Keating, executive director of Challenge Enterprises, said Shred for Good's typical clients are businesses and governments that need to dispose of sensitive documents on a regular basis.

"This type of service can be cost-prohibitive for smaller businesses and individuals that have personal documents they want safely destroyed," said Keating.

IT?S NOT THE ECONOMY, STUPID! ? Jamyang Norbu

The most important political document of that period, sometimes referred to as The Drepung Manifesto, was authored by a group of Drepung monks and printed in the traditional manner with wooden blocks, as a eleven-page pamphlet. It is as clear a declaration of independence as you can get.

It has always appeared to me condescending, even somewhat racist, in the way western journalists and experts have insisted on interpreting events in Tibet in the most simplistic and one-dimensional of terms, ignoring the way Tibetans have been discussing, developing and defining their own distinct political and national identity through all these years.

We must bear in mind that these ideas were being discussed and expressed in Tibet when the economic situation in Tibet had improved considerably from the period before, in the seventies and early eighties, when people barely had enough to eat.

Saturday at the Alexander East Chapel parking lot, Piranha Mobile Shredding was shredding for free.

Gary Wire, who teaches a program on identity theft, said it's just one of the steps you can take to decrease your odds of being a victim.

"I've done hundreds of the programs and everyone asks the same question," Wire said. "'Where can I go to take things that we just don't want to throw away? Things we don't want to get into the hands of someone else and protect ourselves against identity theft.' So we've bonded with Piranha and WFIE, and WIKY and came up with the program."

There will be another free shredding program next Saturday. It will be at the Alexander Chapel parking lot in Newburgh from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Satellites Document War, Destruction From Outer Space

If you live in one of the dusty, poor corners of the world, maybe not. Carnage in developing countries often goes unnoticed in the more wired, wealthy parts of the world.

That's where the American Academy for the Advancement of Sciences' Geospatial Technology and Human Rights Project comes in. It is charged with using the latest in technology, primarily high-resolution satellite photography, to detect and call attention to possible human rights violations.

"I don't consider what we look at to be war in the sense that it's two armies [or] groups of soldiers. These things are slaughters, genocides, butchery and the like," said Lars Bromley, director for the AAAS Science and Human Rights Program, who was profiled in Wired 15.12. "Women and children are the primary targets.

Vocational projects help local ARC to spread its wings

Another new endeavor is a shredding business. Using equipment donated by the Florida Lottery, it offers secure document destruction at the ARC complex. Customers can either bring the documents to ARC or have them picked up by an ARC vehicle.

The shredding operation has helped ARC reduce its own trash disposal expenses by $10,000 a year, King said.

"This is really needed by our nursing homes and assisted-living facilities," said Linda Lampman, an investment counselor who took part in the VMA tour. "People there accumulate a lot of financial documents and don't know how to get rid of them safely."

ARC's mailroom, which has been in operation for several years, handles a variety of mail-inserting tasks for about 30 area companies.

One of its biggest clients is BZ Mailing Services, a Mason Avenue company that has been using ARC workers for various manual tasks for 15 years.

Brambles allays Wal-Mart fears

Brambles's other main business, Recall, a document storage, management and destruction operation, was also doing well except in the US, where higher costs were taking their toll.

Yesterday's statement helped reassure investors, given that the company is just five days away from closing its books on its 2008 financial year.

The disks are then crushed and sent for shredding, ensuring that any shreds of data are completely beyond recovery. However, many people may want to donate the PC.

Companies should ensure that the company they are using to refurbish their computers and IT equipment has a full and rigorous wiping procedure to ensure al l data is safely removed from their PCs prior to being refurbished and distributed to schools and community groups, said Tom Murphy, head of community and public relations, Microsoft Ireland.

For example, Rehab Recycle, one of the companies involved in the Microsoft Authorised Refurbisher (Mar) programme, provides secure facilities in Dublin, Cork and Galway, and all donated PCs are fully wiped of all data in a secure manner.

Rehab also provides full reports on all donated PCs.

Don't try this at home

The Savannah College of Art and Design professor of foundation studies and sculpture uses rocket fuel, explosives, pyrotechnics, propellants and munitions to create earth-shattering art. These energetic materials are used to manipulate metal, wood and paper -- using destruction to create art.

Stromberg’s creations include sculpted metal panels. He’s also used a submachine gun to create pigment-infused solid rocket-fuel paint that is literally shot into stone.

"I think it stems from a long-term interest in energetic materials," Stromberg says. "Recently, with the birth of my daughter, my wife and I were thinking about what we are going to teach her. I want to encourage her to seek out things in life she finds interesting.

"I’ve always liked energetic materials," he says.

Venture partners launch Knox-based shredding company

A Knoxville advisory firm partner and a veteran of the document shredding business are launching a new venture that plans to be a leading U.S. document destruction company through mergers and acquisitions.
Mike West, managing partner of NorthShore Capital Advisors, a business advisory firm in West Knoxville, has formed 3GS LLC with Mike Boehringer, who has worked with EZshred and Shredding Solutions. Boehringer will be CEO 3GS and West will serve on the new company's board of directors. The pair say the 3GS strategy will be to acquire independent shredding companies to create the largest independent document destruction company in North America. “Targeted mergers or acquisitions are essential if a company is to outgrow the competition. Organic growth alone is not the route to sustained growth," Boehringer said in a statement.

In addition to the proper disposing of electronics, Goodwill provides shredding of confidential documents in their facility at 19th Street West. They guarantee that material delivered to this facility is properly secured while awaiting destruction. Upon request, a certificate of destruction is provided to assure that all documents have been destroyed. Material that has been shredded is recycled into the production of cardboard containers.

Ever wonder why the stadium lights are left on after Marshall's home football games? Goodwill employees are cleaning up tons of debris left after each game. They also clean carpets, strip and wax floors, clean office facilities, banks, and manufacturing facilities. If it needs cleaned, chances are, Goodwill has been trained to do it.

Need help with consumer credit counseling? Goodwill offers classes by qualified instructors in Debt Management, Consumer Education, Pre-filling Bankruptcy Procedures, Free Budget, Credit, and Home Loan Counseling.

Harper?s premeditated destruction of the CWB spelled out in secret

In a secret Cabinet briefing document dated August 10, 2006, the Harper Government spelled out a methodical, step-by-step plan to destroy the Canadian Wheat Board (CW single desk for wheat and barley. The document listed nearly every totalitarian tactic the government subsequently used against the CWB, including: a gag order, an attempt to change the CWB mandate through Cabinet Order, firing CWB CEO Adrian Measner and other appointed Directors and replacing them with Directors who "favour marketing choice," a plebiscite with a three-part question and "no specified percentage" for victory.
The previously-classified Cabinet document was made public by lawyers representing the CWB during a court hearing in Winnipeg June 16. The six-page document contained several blacked-out portions, but listed a number of "options" the Harper Cabinet could use to circumvent the democratic Parliamentary process.

Manteca planning second document shredding event

Solid waste employees will help with the event as well as the Manteca Police Department to make sure all documents are secure while awaiting shredding. Volunteers from the CVB - lead by that organization's president Steve DeBrum who is also a city councilman - will also be on hand to help move items to be shredded from vehicles that pull into the Library Park parking lot that night.

The Manteca Police Department handles over 120 stolen identification cases a year. And one of the leading ways for crooks to steal your ID and cost you well over $1,000 - even if fraudulent charges are covered by credit card companies - is your garbage and your mailbox.

The Federal Trade Commission indicates there are 10 million victims of identity theft a year in the United States with a good number of the cases involving serious breaches that take the victim an average of 175 hours to clear up their credit with average losses not covered by financial institutions pegged at $1,500.

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