Hello everyone, I would like to extend a little bit of information in the direction of our customers regarding the data trail they may not be aware they are leaving out there. The first tidbit is a link for a video which discusses the perils of large photo copiers and printers.
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6412572n&tag=related;photovideo
This link discusses how many of these machines unknowingly to many consumers and end users contain hard drives which track and create copies of all images, items, and copies produced from the machine. These machines do this out of convenience, but that convenience may come at a price. If you utilize a public copy machine to produce duplicates of social security cards, birth certificates, or other private documents, the machine will store these records which could ultimately be extracted at a later point by a potential criminal. It is for this reason it is important to know the recycling procedures of the company at which you use to make these copies.
The next time you find yourself at one of these photo copiers at work, the grocery store, or anywhere for that manner, ask the person in charge who is responsible for the machine how that particular machine will be recycled once it is no longer in use. If their answer is that the Computer Crusher Recycling Company will handle the device then you can rest assured that the hard drive will be located, pulled, and physically crushed by us. The physical destruction outlined in a previous blog explains how we destroy hard drives quickly and efficiently.
Next blog: What, is a hard drive?
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