PRIVACY

Take a quick “Privacy Checkup”

Having a hard time keeping up with privacy regulations? Visit Iron Mountain’s online Privacy Law Generator to obtain a customized list of the privacy and data protection laws that are most likely to affect your organization.

Secure disposal: It’s the law

We’ve all heard stories about confidential data being put at risk by careless disposal practices: Bank records thrown out in a dumpster, or a corporate laptop sent to recycling with employee social security numbers still on the hard drive.

Such privacy breaches not only undermine customers’ trust and cause embarrassment for an organization. They also can trigger severe fines and penalties under privacy regulations. For example, the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA) Disposal Rule requires a company to have an information disposal program in place that protects against consumer fraud and identity theft.

A measure of “good faith”

Iron Mountain will help you develop a secure and consistently applied disposal program that shows a “good faith” effort at compliance with relevant privacy regulations. 

Disposal policies and procedures address sensitive and regulated information and span key business units.

The risk of data leakage is reduced by facilitating destruction of paper and electronics records wherever they reside: in open office areas, on PCs, laptops, and servers, and at records storage facilities.