The necessity of making sure that confidential information is properly rendered unreadable when it needs to be disposed of has become a fact of life for companies in control of sensitive information.

News agencies can't ignore these stories and hundreds more like them. . .

"Client confidentiality went out with the trash at Montreal Trust's downtown headquarters yesterday. Several thousand pages of account names, numbers and balances were found blowing through downtown streets near the Bay and King Street intersection . . ." Toronto Sun

"Scavengers are roaming the streets of Niagara region ripping off the contents of blue boxes faster than recycling trucks can pick them up . .  ." St. Catherine

"McGraw-Hill charged that their recycling company illegally resold millions of dollars of college textbooks . . ." Bacon's