Study: Businesses falling short on data disposal
 

*Source: News.com (http://www.news.com/Study-Businesses...tag=nefd.top)*
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Organizations charged with safeguarding sensitive data are not doing enough to ensure that information is cleansed from hard disks before disposal, according to communication services provider BT Group.

A study of secondhand disks by BT and universities in the U.K., the U.S. and Australia found "a surprisingly large range and quantity of information that could be potentially commercially damaging or a threat to the identity and privacy of the individuals involved."

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