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Businesses today can't afford not shredding. In a 2006 survey reported by the federal Government Accountability Office, businesses reported spending an average of $1.4 million per data breach in customer notification, public relations and legal costs.
Identity Theft and Fraud
Every business produces confidential information - financial statements, client information/records, contracts, etc. With the increasing amount of identity theft and fraud in today's market, you need to do everything you can to protect you and your company from the liaiblities that can arise from failing to secure confidential/protected information.
It's the Law
Federal and State laws are becoming more strict and comprehensive. The burden to protect confidential information is being placed squarely on the business or service provider.
Maryland law:
Maryland's Personal Information Protection Act affects all businesses and requires the secure protection and destruction of customer information, including Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, taxpayer ID numbers, and credit card numbers.
The law also requires businesses to notify customers of data breaches. The law anticipates that some notifications will cost more than $100,000. datasense summary of law.
Businesses will be judged for compliance with the law based on:
- use of available technology
- choice of destruction methods
Federal law:
(Click on law for additional information)Outsourcing vs. do-it-yourself
Compare the true costs of having your employees shredding and disposing of documents versus using datasense to handle your secure destruction needs.
By using datasense, you'll avoid:
- Employees being taken away from their jobs, sorting confidential and non-confidential information.
- Employees removing staples and binder clips in order to feed a few pages at a time into an office shredder.
- A lack of security as documents are piled up waiting to be shredded
Let your employees do what you hired them to do; let datasense take care of the rest.
Protecting the environment
Once your paper documents are safely shredded, these materials are mixed in with other shredded documents and sent to paper mills to be recycled into usable paper products. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, using 1 ton of 100% recycled paper saves 17 trees, 7000 gallons of water and 4100 kilowatt hours of electricity. This also keeps 60 pounds of pollution out of the air.
In other words, protecting your customers' personal information and your sensitive business records also protects the environment.
