In order to comply with UK data protection laws, all personal information must be securely destroyed. Personal information includes employee and customer data, marketing lists, contact details. As a matter of course, companies also wish to destroy information whose disclosure could adversely affect a company's competitive advantage in the marketplace.  Simply deleting data from a hard drive does not mean the data is gone. 

All methods of information storage (not just paper) are covered by the Data Protection Act 1998. It is the main piece of legislation that governs the protection of personal data in the UK. Organisations in the UK must comply with this Act. As information can be created and stored on very different media, the management and protection of the information’s life cycle is key for every organisation.

Some company's risk legal and financial penalties by leaving data on old assets and relying on third parties to remove the data. The third parties usually rely on software to remove the data. This method is open to human error and it is hard to verify that data has been successfully removed.  Blue Data's on site data destruction service ensures no data leaves your site: you witness its destruction.  If your company doesn't have a secure media disposal policy, its time to get one.    

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