Ensure that data security practices include proper data deletion and disposal, including
purging of electronic data, shredding physical
documents, and destroying the presence of all data on
old electronic equipment where data has been stored
And every major multinational corporation with legal representation worth its salt has, so far as the law and pragmatism allows, one day a year set aside to shred every
document and
purge every bit of computer memory of records more than one year
old on that date.