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POPIA - compliant document shredding: outsourced is more cost effective
August 30 2021 By Cleardata
With the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act now mandating that customer information be safely handled and, when no longer needed, securely destroyed, businesses are looking to document shredding to ensure POPIA compliance. Standard office shredders have long been part of the traditional office setup. However, in these unprecedented times...
Staff working from home? How are they handling document destruction (and still complying with POPIA)?
August 24 2021 By Cleardata
If you or your staff have been working from home over the past year, unwanted paperwork has no doubt been piling up. But did you know that now that the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act has come into effect, you can no longer simply dispose of unneeded documents containing business or customer information in the dustbin or with your wee...
Are your document destruction practises POPIA compliant?
August 19 2021 By Cleardata
By now you have heard about the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) and the obligation on you as a corporate to appropriately gather, process and store your customers' private information in accordance with this law. But what about the way sensitive information is disposed of? According to POPIA, in much the same way confidential informa...
Document shredding: the benefits beyond just protecting company data
August 02 2021 By Cleardata
Document shredding: the benefits beyond just protecting company data With the Protection of Personal Information Act having just come into effect in South Africa, the benefits of shredding confidential company and customer information are obvious. But what about the environmental benefits, and the carbon footprint-offset offered to corporates th...
Was your business affected by the recent looting? We can help
July 26 2021 By Cleardata
Securing company and client information has become even more important now that the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act has come into effect. The act firmly places responsibility on businesses to ensure sensitive customer information is safely handled and, when no longer needed, securely destroyed. Civil unrest and looting, as recently se...
Covid-19: what SA businesses can learn from the pandemic
February 24 2021 By Cleardata
What has the Covid-19 pandemic and national lockdown taught us? Well, aside from how to make pineapple beer, home school our kids, and relocate entire offices, overnight, to our homes where Zoom meetings are occasionally accompanied by the sound of barking dogs and squawking hadedas, a lot. From a business perspective specifically, the way we think...