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Confidential Information – are your documents secure?

February 22nd, 2012

Here is an article from TVA, showing another reason why you should take responsibility to ensure the safe and secure destruction of confidential information for your business.  The link to the three video news reports, in French, is provided below.

Your Tax Returns Unattended

Here is a story that threatens to undermine established assumptions about the seriousness with which the state protects the personal information it holds about you. The federal government appoint a Montreal company the responsibility to destroy and recycle confidential documents of several ministries. Your report of such taxes. Our investigation exposes serious flaws in the system. And nobody, except the Commissioner of privacy, does not seem to care. JC Fibers has also secured the tender a contract for paper recycling in several departments and agencies of the Government of Quebec, in the region Montreal. However, Recyc-Québec, responsible for this program, assures us that it is not confidential documents. An even greater challenge for the protection of information is also now at computerization.

Follow I – November 19, 2010

The federal government responded to our report last week which revealed weaknesses in the protection of personal information it holds about you (see details of report in link below).

TVA article and video news reports:

http://tva.canoe.ca/emissions/je/reportages/95801.html#