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Article: Hard drives must be sanitized or destroyed before recycling.(Business Bytes)
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- Catalyst (Dublin, Ohio)
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) and other regulations require enterprises, including CPA firms, to secure adequate disc-cleansing processes before recycling or selling desktop computers and servers in order to minimize the risk of stolen personal identity information.
There is a baffling array of terminology in this area, such as: cleaning, cleansing, clearing, degaussing, deleting, destroying, erasing, formatting, overwriting, reformatting, sanitizing, shredding, squeezing, wiping and so on. Most experts in the area seem to agree on one thing: Doing nothing to protect personal identity information on a ...