Privacy and Protection of Personal Data is Your Responsibility

Protection of Private and Personal Data is Everyone's ResponsibilityA recent audit by the office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has found that a certain big box store has not been properly removing customer data from returned laptops and storage devices before reselling them.  CBC News reports that Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddard said these findings are 'particularly disappointing' given that her office has investigated previous complaints involving returned storage devices in 2004 and 2008, and Staples Business Depot had committed to corrective action at that time.

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GARP - The Principle of Protection

Protection of Information is Vital to Records ManagementThe third Generally Accepted Recordkeeping Principle is Protection.  ARMA’s guidelines, found in the download section of the CanDox website, state:  “A recordkeeping program shall be constructed to ensure a reasonable level of protection to records and information that are private, confidential, privileged, secret, or essential to business continuity.”

Protecting records throughout their lifecycle is the core of good records management. 

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