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TeleCycle Data Distruction
A too often forgotten component of the recycling process is data destruction. Many businesses, regardless of their size or nature, expose themselves to commercial risk but discarding their computer hard drives and neglecting the critical information that they may contain. Fortunately, as part of our recycling services, TeleCycle offers data destruction services to our clients to ensure secure destruction of their proprietary and confidential information contained on such devices.
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Our commitment is to ensure a thorough and secure destruction of our client's proprietary and confidential information. This is demonstrated in our use of Department of Defense software meeting DoD 5220.22-M multipass standards. In the case of “bad sector” encounters in the data and overwriting is not feasible, physical destruction of the device is implemented to ensure the destruction of sensitive data.
As part of our services, TeleCycle issues Certificates of Data Destruction to our clients for their record keeping and evidence for auditing purposes.
TeleCycle is a member of NAID, the National Association for Information Destruction, the international trade association for companies providing information destruction services and its mission is to promote the information destruction industry and the standards and ethics of its member companies. As such, we offer our clients data destruction services in accordance with the industry’s best practice ensuring compliance with all existing legislations and thereby protecting our client's commercial and economic interests.
Our policy is to protect our client's interests entirely and indubitably.
Why does your business need Data Destruction Services?
Inherently, many businesses fail to realize the importance of this service when disposing of their out-dated or redundant computer equipment. They fail to appreciate the economic and legal ramifications that may follow if the information contained on such devices is not properly sanitized.
For example, imagine your business is involved in sales or in manufacturing. Consider the cost to your business if you disposed of your office computers containing your confidential client list or your proprietary manufacturing process and this information became known to your competitors. Imagine if your business is a law firm, an accounting firm, or a medical center. Consider the damage to your hard-earned reputation if your client's or patient's confidential information became public knowledge. Consider the lawsuits that could be brought against your business.
Add to this the penalties that are imposed by a number of legislative regimes when a business improperly disposes of its client's confidential information and it is clear that proper handling of data is absolutely crucial for success. As such, through its services, TeleCycle assists our clients to adhere to government privacy and liability legislations such as:
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act 1996 (HIPAA)
HIPAA governs the control measures for the safeguarding of hardware containing protected health information (PHI) to protect against inappropriate electronic and physical access. When a piece of electronic equipment is retired it must be disposed of properly to ensure that PHI is not compromised. HIPAA sets civil monetary penalties for violating HIPAA rules and establishes procedures for investigations and hearings for HIPAA violations.
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Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act 2010 (HITECH)
HITECH addresses the electronic transmission and disposition of health information such as personal health records (PHR) and protected health information (PHI) by vendors and related entities. It also extends the HIPAA requirements and updates civil and criminal penalties to business associates.
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Gramm-Leach Bliley Act 1999 (GLBA)
Major components of GLBA include the mandatory requirements by financial institutions, insurers included, to put into place measures to govern the collection, disclosure, and protection of consumers’ non-public personal information, or personal identity information. This provides a necessary policy in place to protect the information from foreseeable threats in security and data integrity.
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Sarbanes-Oxley Act 2002 (SOX)
SOX set new or enhanced standards for all US public company boards, management, and public accounting firms. This legislation was enacted as a reaction to a number of major corporate and accounting scandals including those affecting Enron, Tyco International, Adelphia, Peregrine Systems and WorldCom. Amongst many requirements, SOX requires public companies to restrict access to production databases.
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Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA)
The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 (FACT Act or FACTA, Pub.L. 108-159) is a United States federal law, passed by the United States Congress on November 22, 2003,[1] and signed by President George W. Bush on December 4, 2003, as an amendment to the Fair Credit Reporting Act. The act allows consumers to request and obtain a free credit report once every twelve months from each of the three nationwide consumer credit reporting companies (Equifax, Experian and TransUnion). In cooperation with the Federal Trade Commission, the three major credit reporting agencies set up the website, annualcreditreport.com, to provide free access to annual credit reports. The act also contains provisions to help reduce identity theft, such as the ability for individuals to place alerts on their credit histories if identity theft is suspected, or if deploying overseas in the military, thereby making fraudulent applications for credit more difficult. Further, it requires secure disposal of consumer information.
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Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA)
Superfund is the common name for the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), a United States federal law designed to clean up sites contaminated with hazardous substances. Superfund created the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), and it provides broad federal authority to clean up releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances that may endanger public health or the environment. The law authorized the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to identify parties responsible for contamination of sites and compel the parties to clean up the sites. Where responsible parties cannot be found, the Agency is authorized to clean up sites itself, using a special trust fund.
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