http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/06/21/technology-staples-business-depot-privacy-commissioner.html CBC News Jun 21, 2011 Staples Business Depot has breached Canadian privacy law by not fully wiping customer data off laptops and storage devices returned by customers before reselling them, Canada's privacy commissioner has found. Banking information, tax records, social insurance numbers, health card and passport numbers, as well as academic transcripts were among the information found on 54 of 149 tested data storage devices destined to be resold by Staples during an audit by the office of Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart. "The position of our office is that if Staples is unable to remove all customer data from a particular manufacturer’s device, it is unacceptable to resell that device," said a summary of the findings. The audit was part of Stoddart's 2010 report tabled in Parliament on Tuesday in compliance with Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), meant to protect the private information that consumers give to companies in the course of doing business. The privacy commissioner's office tested computers, laptops, USB hard drives and memory cards that had already undergone a "wipe and restore" process intended to delete data. The devices most likely to contain customer data were laptops, where it was found in 17 of 20 cases. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/Received on Wed Jun 22 2011 - 23:50:38 PDT
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