Goodwill to Meet with Congress on E-Waste Problems
Goodwill receives more than 27 million pounds of electronics donations a year, but up to 30% of this is obsolete and ends up as e-waste.

Your Laptop's Dirty Little Secret
The world produces 20 to 50 million tons of e-waste a year and much of it ends up being dumped in developing nations’ landfills.

Data from Columbia disk drives survived the shuttle accident
99% of data is recovered from a data drive that fell from the space shuttle Columbia when it was destroyed in 2003.

Recycling That Harms the Environment and People
Recycling is supposed to be good for the environment. But if it’s not carried out properly, certain kinds of recycling can cause environmental harm. (nytimes.com)

Stolen laptop contains personal info of 2,500 patients
A government laptop computer stolen last month held unencrypted medical records of 2,500 participants in a government study (CNN.com)

State Security Breach Notification Laws
Informational resource of states that have enacted legislation requiring notification of security breaches involving personal information. (National Conference of Sate Legislatures)

Theft of personal data more than triples this year
Thieves are systematically pilfering sensitive personal data from companies, government agencies, colleges and hospitals like never before. (USAToday.com)

Study: Businesses Falling Short on Data Disposal
Organizations charged with safeguarding sensitive data are not doing enough to ensure that information is cleansed from hard disks before disposal, according to communication services provider BT Group. (CNETNews.com)

Is America Exporting a Huge Environmental Problem?
Americans bought an estimated $125 billion worth of consumer electronics - computers, monitors, cell phones, televisions - this past year. With hundreds of millions of them becoming obsolete every year in this country, what happens to all the stuff we don't want any more? (ABC News).

Veterans Sue VA Over Data Loss
Claiming that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs "flagrantly disregarded the privacy rights of essentially every man or woman to have worn a United States military uniform," veterans groups filed a massive class-action lawsuit on June 6th in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. (eWeek.com)

'Perfect storm' for new privacy laws?
A series of security break-ins is kick-starting a political drive to reshape federal laws that dictate how companies protect personal information (CNET Tech Site).

Old computers increasingly find new life
One person's trash is another's treasure. Info World Site (Info World Site).

Hardware Today: Putting Your Server Out to Pasture
There comes a time when servers must be disposed of. The question then becomes what should be done with it? (Datamation Site)

Skeletons on your hard drive
Hard drives can keep increasingly larger volumes of information at the ready. But that can turn into a problem when it comes to effectively erasing the devices (CNET Tech Site).

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