What data can companies collect, and how long can they keep it? Our Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team outlines best practices for companies to comply with ...

Organisations charged with safeguarding sensitive data are not doing enough to ensure that information is cleansed from hard disks before disposal, according to BT. A study of second-hand disks by BT ...

According to IDC, in 2008 the total amount of information created exceeded the total amount of usable space on every hard drive, tape, CD, DVD and solid state memory device ever created. At the same ...

Technology drives modern business, but what happens when old computers, servers, and hard drives reach the end of their life cycle? Many companies overlook the importance of secure disposal until it’s ...

The proper media disposal technique for any paper based documentation must match the highest classification of data that is contained in that document. Therefore, a document containing both University ...

Deidre Paknad is founder of the Compliance, Governance and Oversight Counsel and Director of Information Lifecycle Governance Solutions at IBM. Consider this: 90% of the data in the world today was ...

An editorial in this month’s Journal of Clinical Investigation takes authors to task for recycling text — and occasionally data — in different journals. JCI executive editor Ushma S. Neill notes that ...