Discarding of personal information properly

Discarding of personal information properly Author: Channel 8 If you own a business, whether you have one or a hundred employees, you may want to head to the store by next week and pick up a shredder. A new provision on an old law makes it illegal for you to just throw away person information.…

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New Law About To Send Shredding On A Tear

New Law About To Send Shredding On A Tear Author: Alan Wagmeister Part of the new consumer credit law will have anyone employing even one person shredding documents. Undated — Do you shred? If not, get ready to. You’ve heard about shredding. You understand that it’s probably a good idea to shred any receipts that…

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FACTA Law – Document Destruction Required

By Will Shanley The Denver Post Federal law – document destruction required even small businesses to adopt practice to fight identity theft. Shredding facts • Possible penalties for violating new federal document-destruction provisions: • Federal fines: Up to $2,500 for each violation. • Civil lawsuits: Consumers may recover actual and punitive damages, as well as…

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FACTA – The fair and accurate credit transaction Act

FACTA – The fair and accurate credit transaction Act I bet this is one most of you didn’t know about. I didn’t until Al’s Morning Meeting reader Elliot Weiler, Consumer Reporter at WBRE-TV, told me about it. The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA) got a lot of press some months ago because it…

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