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All businesses discard confidential data. Customer lists, pricing lists, sales statistics, drafts of bids and correspondence, even memos, contain information about business activity that would interest a competitor. Every business is also entrusted with information that must be kept private. Employees and customers have the legal right to have this data protected. Without the proper safeguards, information is merely discarded in the garbage (often in an unlocked dumpster located outside of your facility) where it is readily, and legally, available to anybody. The trash is considered by industrial espionage professionals as the single most available (need a different word – accessible?) source of competitive and private information from the average business. Any establishment that discards private and proprietary data without destroying it first, exposes itself to the risk of criminal and civil prosecution, as well as the costly loss of
business.
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