Lax disposal of computers is embarrassing and illegal

Organisations and individuals are breaching the Data Protection Act and leaving themselves open to significant cost and embarrassment by failing to dispose of computers properly - or at least so says the University of Glamorgan, which last week published startling research results into the disposal of old computers.

The Computer Forensics team examined 92 second-hand computers acquired from a variety of sources, including eBay and computer fairs, and set to find out how much data they could ... (267 more words)

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