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The FACTA Disposal Rule and Its Impact on Your Business
Computers, scanners, and sophisticated software programs have made document shredding much more challenging. Law enforcement and crooks alike have successfully reassembled shredded documents many times. In 2009, federal prosecutors spent about two months reassembling documents shredded by the Stanford Financial Group, owned by R. Allen Stanford, who was charged with running a $7 billion Ponzi…
How You Can Celebrate Earth Day with Document Shredding
During his final tour, at the April 1st, 2022 Indianapolis concert, Elton John told the enthusiastic crowd about the family that saved his life by helping him make lifestyle changes and get clean and sober. He said that without them, he likely would have died. Elton celebrated family member, Jeanne White-Ginder, who was in the…
How Does a Drop-Off Shredding Service Work?
Convenient adj: handy; suitable; causing little or no trouble. Sometimes the most cost-effective, time-saving, and energy efficient way to accomplish a task is to find the most suitable route that causes little or no trouble to your schedule. It’s not a one-route-fits-all world. If you are operating or working for a business from home, scheduled…
What You Need to Know about the California Consumer Privacy Act
The Law In 2018, California strengthened the rights of individuals and their personally identifiable information (PII) by enacting the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). This Act gave consumers more control of the personal information that businesses collect about them. Personal information is considered anything that identifies, relates to, or could reasonably be linked to an…
Comparing Off-Site and On-Site Shredding
Would You Rather… “Would you rather?” has become a popular conversational game among both kids and adults. The popularity of it is that there is no obvious answer or correct choice because your answer is dependent on a lot of personal variables and will be different for everyone. Answering “neither” or “both” is against the…
December is Identity Theft Awareness & Prevention Month
Identity Theft Trivia Who comes to mind when you hear of a vile, conniving, and despicable thief who would steal Christmas right out from under your nose—other than your Uncle Skinflint, that is? Why the Grinch, of course! I wonder if in this day and age Mr. Grinch might be crouched over his computer, trying…