The Data Protection Act - Your responsibilities

Protecting financial, personal and commercial information is a huge responsibility which every organization shares.

Robust Data Protection legislation means UK businesses must ensure that any sensitive information is securely destroyed. Secure shredding excludes the traditional strip cutting shredders often seen in the workplace because strip shredded documents can too easily be put back together.

So, whether you're a small restaurant processing credit card payments or a large local authority dealing with personal housing records, your records have to be destroyed securely.

Why? Because identity theft is the biggest rising fraud in the UK and 90% of companies prosecuted in recent years under the Data Protection Act have been found guilty.

For business advice from the Information Commisioner's Office click here