You were right that not ever copy is stored and there is a finite area but they can hold tens of thousands of documents. Simply running copies of your cat or the phone book isn’t going to clear this information. You would also have to print and scan pictures of your cat.

Your recommendation to put the copier under the IT department and make policies that contol the return of the copier is very important, thanks for mentioning it.

What about this statment “Unless you are protecting DoD nuclear secrets, I wouldn’t worry more than that about copiers”. One page of persons medical record left on a copier could cost a company $1.5 million, or in the case of the insurance company in the CBS story the cost of sending out 406,000 breach notifications. This company had 17 machines and only one of them ended up on TV. There are many laws that cover release of employee and customer confidentional information. There are currently 46 states that have breach notification laws on the books and most have very stiff penalties.

The new copiers have capabilities, that are either standard or available as an opiton, that will clear the hard drive but these features were not available on earlier machines (2002-2007) and these are the machines that are being traded in today.

If you need more information call me.

I saw this really good post today….

One possibly important thing for your own personal knowledge is FICO doesn’t calculate the same amount of emphasis on having more credit lines as Credit Karma’s formula for middle to lower scores.

Have a nice day
Tania

The difference here, I think, is one of degree. It will now far easier than it used to be. My local township no longer has to develop any technical skills because Google has solved it for them. That pushes the ability to be intrusive to many more agencies. It also opens up the traceability to non-governmental agencies. Big Brother is bad enough – now we have to worry about little brother (other businesses and even individuals), too.

The government doesn’t need Google’s Latitude to do this, the cellphone providers do it for them already.

All cellphones have been ‘trackable’ for a few years, ostensibly to allow 911 calls to be located.

Big Brother is watching you, get used to it! Just remember that if it’s the government doing it they’ll lose the file or screw it up anyway.

If you want to complain about something, save yourself for when you start getting targeted ads directing you to businesses according to your location, oh wait, Google and Yahoo already do that.