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Legislation
Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment recycling (WEEE)
The European Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE) applies to a wide range of electronic and electrical products. WEEE encourages the collection, treatment, recycling and recovery of waste electrical and electronic equipment.
How does this legislation promote the safe disposal of data and computer equipment?
aims to reduce the amount of waste electrical and electronic equipment ending up in landfills
Overwrite data
What is overwriting data?
overwriting is the process of replacing old information with new information.
What are the drawbacks of this?
The old data can no longer be accessed
Overwriting only works when the storage media is undamaged
Electromagnetic wipe
What does this do to data on a storage device?
reduce or eliminate an unwanted magnetic field (or data) stored on tape and disk media such as computer and laptop hard drives
What are the benefits of this compared to overwriting data?
Physical destruction
How can companies use this measure to ensure data cannot be retrieved?
hard drives, smartphones, printers, laptops and other storage media into tiny pieces by large mechanical shredders. It can also involve the process of rearranging the magnetic fields on hard disk drives using degaussers.
What is Physical destruction?
Physical destruction can involve shredding hard drives, smartphones, printers, laptops and other storage media into tiny pieces by large mechanical shredders.