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Story: Dumped business PCs pose sensitive-data risk

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Sensitive Data Leaks

We're finding more and more that Companies are choosing to implement cost savings and one of these is the avoidance of any additional charges associated with the disposal of waste. This applies very much to the recycling of old computer hardware. There's a large proportion of businesses that remove their hard drives before we take away the equipment and a proportion who don't want to have to pay for the reporting process- hence don't get to know if we've removed their data or not.

The issues may end up compoundng themselves when there's a breach of the Data Protection Act but I think that we need to look at this pragmatically. Half of the majore recycling companies out there are looking to make money from waste and not resale of computers. The big recyclers are geared up for processing and not refurbishment

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