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by p2detar 176 days ago
> For security reasons (and to protect the PII of all our users and customers), everything was being shredded and/or destroyed. Nothing was being kept.

Wow! That’d sure be some waste of disk drives and memory. Do they destroy it themselves or some contractor does this?

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I don't like it. Giving away or selling the components for free would have been better than just throwing it at the dump. I appreciate the PII concerns, but these days disks have built-in sanitation procedures, as part of an industry-wide program to reduce waste.

And if you throw away memory for PII concerns, that would be beyond crazy.