Start the new year by shredding unwanted pounds
To help raise awareness about how people can protect themselves against fraud and identity theft, TD Canada Trust and Shred-It have joined forces to bring a community shred event to four TDCT branch locations in Oakville. Open to both customers and the general public, this one day event aims to encourage everyone to protect their identity by shredding old documents containing personal information instead of throwing them out.
Shred-it, A Securit Company, is the world's leading on site document destruction company with over 140 branches operating in 16 countries. Shred-it trucks are equipped with custom-built shredders that can efficiently destroy everything from confidential paper documents to CDs. Founded in 1988, Shred-it currently services over 150,000 global, national and local businesses and organizations worldwide.
Prescription documents found in Winnipeg alley
Shoppers Drug Mart says a man's discovery of hundreds of its prescription information documents strewn across a Winnipeg back alley was an isolated incident.
A man discovered the documents, which include names, addresses, prescription information and health numbers, while walking past an alley behind St. Boniface General Hospital on Dec. 26.Prescription information and other drugstore documents were found in a Winnipeg back alley and handed to CBC on Wednesday.(CBC)
The man brought the papers — enough to stuff three shopping bags — to the CBC in Winnipeg on Wednesday. On Thursday morning, CBC News turned them over to the Manitoba Pharmaceutical Association.
Shoppers Drug Mart spokeswoman Lilian Relph said Thursday that all of its stores have in-store shredding machines or a contract with Shred-it, a document destruction company.
Deletion is not enough
Electronic documents are both more and less than paper documents. In the physical world paper documents exist. Burn the paper and the document is gone, leaving no trace, except ash and, possibly, references to it in other paper documents.
In the world of bits that ain't necessarily so. Delete a computer document and you delete an entry for it in the file system's index. The document contents, the stored bits, remain on a hard disk drive and there they stay until written over by some new file. An electronic document also exists as temporary files in a PC that has created or accessed it. They can also exist in backup container files.
Strictly speaking, when you delete a file it isn't deleted at all. A set of entries in an filesystem index is deleted but nothing else is. |
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