End of life information Assets in the form of paper, can, and do hold business critical, and sensitive data (information) relating to Internal Staff, as well as the Clients.
The bag of waste in the image below was dumped on the path outside of a London based Financial Outlet – two things were observed. One, the shredding actually contain complete characters, and secondly, the shredding are in a sequential form - thus reconstruction would not be an issue for anyone with a reasonable level of eyesight.
At the end of the day, this would seem to be a case where Standards, and Policies had been applied, which dictated the requirement to shred Sensitive Waste – the shortfall here was of course not to accommodate the required level of shedder capability to assure that ease of reconstruction could not be achieved.
