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Upcoming Shred Events
Shredding Source has a mobile shredder that we make
available for Community Shred events. This raises community
awareness of shredding services that we offer and can even be used
for fundraising purposes. Please contact us to schedule a shredding
event in your community by calling 904-421-3888.
(Please check back often as new
dates and places are continually added)
February
Date: Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Time: 10am-2pm
Place: COJ- Victim Services, 403 West 10th Street, Jacksonville, FL
32206
Partner: City of Jacksonville-Victim Services, Thelma
Jackson: 904-630-6309
March
Date: Thursday, March 22, 2012
Time: 12pm-2pm
Place: Parking Lot, 172 State Rd 312, St Augustine, FL 32086
Partner: AAA office, Kay Ferchow: 904-280-8181 ext.
238
March
Date: Saturday, March 31, 2012
Time: 10am-12pm
Place: Parking Lot, 790 N. Ponce De Leon Blvd, St Augustine, FL
32084
Partner: Prosperity Bank, Brian Mickley:
904-824-5656
April
Date: Saturday, April 7, 2012
Time: 9am-12pm
Place: Winn Dixie Parking Lot, 258 Solana Road, Ponte Vedra Beach,
FL 32082
Partner: PVB Athletic Association, John Anderson:
904-687-3000
April
Date: Friday, April 20, 2012
Time: All Day
Place: Filing Source Parking Lot, 7529 Salisbury Road,
Jacksonville, FL 32256
Partner: Filing Source/Shredding Source, Customer Service
904-421-3888
May
Date: Saturday, May 19, 2012
Time: 10am-1pm
Place: Publix Parking Lot, 4320 Deerwood Lake Parkway,
Jacksonville, FL 32216
Partner: AAA Office, Jennifer Monahan: 904-565-7722
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Shred News
Disposal headlines usher in 2012
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School accidentally throws out books and student
information
SANTA MARIA
kionrightnow.com
Dozens of federally-funded books and documents containing
families personal information were thrown in a dumpster at an
elementary school.
http://www.kionrightnow.com/story/16481347/books-student-personal-documents-thrown-in-dumpsters-at-school
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Medical records found near dumpster
KTNV Las Vegas
Loni Blandford
Jan. 5, 2012
A Las Vegas woman got quite a surprise as she drove around looking
for empty boxes to store her holiday decorations. "This is crazy
that somebody would just throw confidential personal information
like this ..."
http://www.ktnv.com/news/local/136761898.html
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Personal documents dumped at Duluth recycling center
WGCL Atlanta
Submitted by Elizabeth Klynstra
By Bernard Watson
Jan 04, 2012
Consumer Protection has opened an investigation into how and why
documents with people's personal information were dumped in a
Gwinnett County dumpster.
http://www.cbsatlanta.com/story/16446370/personal-documents-dumped-at-duluth-recycling-center
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Bronx cops in file flub
New York Post
KIRSTAN CONLEY
January 4, 2012
Bronx cops disposed of dozens of sensitive files by tossing them
in the garbage outside the 40th Precinct station house, where they
were fair game for local dumpster divers.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bronx/bronx_cops_in_file_flub_FtFy50i23GDupS14Ieki4M
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COLORADO PARKING LOT
7NEWS Reporter
Don Champion
October 3, 2011
A street sweeper in Aurora, CO found
hundreds of sensitive dental patient records scattered near a
Dumpster behind a shopping center on October
2nd.
In what could be considered a gross
understatement, the report states that the street sweeper called
the discovery an act of "carelessness."
The report also states that the dentist
office responsible for protecting the records is more than 20 miles
away. The dentists are saying they have no idea how the incident
happened.
According to the report, the authorities are
now investigating.
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ON CALGARY STREET
The Canadian Press
September 23, 2011
It's happened again.
According to a report in The Canadian
Press, personal medical information was found blowing down a
Calgary street. The records were said to include names, birth
dates, and surgical procedures.
The privacy commissioner's office says there
have been several instances of confidential records being
misplaced, citing one example of some being found in a dumpster
behind a hospital.
The article states that the incident is under
investigation, however, given the chronic nature of this type of
breach, NAID-Canada and others are calling for stronger direction
and stronger legislation.
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IMPROPER DISPOSAL OF PAPER RECORDS
LEADS TO BREACH NOTIFICATION IN NEW YORK
NYU Langone Medical Center
August 22, 2011
According to a report posted on the NYU
Langone Medical Center website, when documents containing personal
information were mistakenly discarded, compacted and buried in a
landfill by New York State Medical Center's Hospital for Joint
Diseases (HJD), the hospital was required to provide breach
notification to approximately 2,600 patients that their personal
information was at risk.
Medical facilities often lose sight of the
fact that improperly discarded paper documents can also result in
data breach notification incidents. According to the recent
information from the US Department of Health and Human Services, as
many as 20% of the hundreds of breach notifications per year
involved lost or improperly discarded paper records.
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AUCTION OF ABANDONED STORAGE UNIT
CONTENTS CONTINUES TO POSE DATA SECURITY RISK
TimesDaily.com
Hannah Mask
October 11, 2011
For years, NAID has been arguing that the
auctioning of the contents of abandoned storage units to the
highest bidder puts personal data at risk.
When you consider that up to one-third of all
self-storage units contain business records, it is hard to see how
they get away with selling them to the highest bidder," says NAID
CEO Bob Johnson.
The recent article on the case of Athens
native Bobby Roberts is a perfect example of the problem Johnson
cites.
Most of the article goes on to discuss the
responsibility of medical professionals to safeguard records. There
is no mention of the fact that the storage company, as the "legacy
custodian," also had a legal responsibility to protect those
records.
"To our knowledge," adds Johnson, "only
California and Indiana have addressed the issue by providing the
legacy custodian a safe harbor. Barring such regulations, anyone
can buy these personal records and have no responsibility for their
protection."
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Indiana Attorney
General
July 5, 2011
A release by the Indiana Attorney General Greg
Zoeller reports that an Indiana-based insurance company will pay a
$100,000 fine and take other steps for waiting months to notify
authorities of a data breach. According to the release, Wellpoint,
the Indianapolis-based parent of Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield,
has agreed to pay the fine; provide up to two years of credit
monitoring and identity theft protection to affected customers, and
reimburse up to $50,000 for breach-related losses.
HIPAA now requires all Covered Entities and
Business Associates (vendors) to report data breaches to
authorities, affected consumers and, in some cases, the media.
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CONTRACTOR APPOINTED TO BE HIPAA
COP
Government Health IT
July 6, 2011
On June 10, 2011, the Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS) awarded to KPMG a $9.2 million contract to
create an audit protocol and to then audit covered entities' and
business associates' compliance with the privacy and security
requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
Act of 1996 (HIPAA).