Laws & Regulations

Document Shredding Laws and Regulations for New Hampshire and Eastern Massachusetts

Document Shredding Laws / Regulations — Destroying Hard Disk Drive in Goffstown, NH
Privacy protection is a matter of law. Every business is required by federal law (and increasingly by state and local mandates) to protect certain types of information. Secure, on site document destruction allows you to be compliant with these laws. All three laws provide for stiff penalties for companies found to be in violation.

Three important Federal Laws require specific safeguards to ensure confidentiality. Click link to learn More:

The Health Insurance Portability and Accounting Act (HIPAA) enacted by the federal government in 1996 is intended to safeguard the privacy of patient health records. The law provides for stiff penalties for companies found to be in violation of HIPAA regulations.
The Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act, also known as FACTA or the FACT Act was signed into federal law on Dec. of 2003. It contains a number of mandates intended to combat consumer fraud and related crimes including identity theft. Specifically it requires the destruction of all paper documents containing identifiable consumer information.

Section 682.3 of the law states: Any person who maintains or otherwise possesses consumer information or any compilation of consumer information for business purposes must properly dispose of such information by taking reasonable measures to protect against unauthorized access to or use of the information in connection with its disposal.

Shredding of such documents so that the information cannot be practicably be read or reconstructed meets the laws standard.
The Gramm Leach Bliley Act (GLB), also known as the Financial Modernization Act of 1999 is a federal law that forces a financial institution to respect the privacy of its customers and to protect the security and confidentiality of those customers non-public personal information. The law provides for stiff penalties for companies found to be in violation of its regulations.  
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