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Certification Scorecard: Sept. 24, 2020

Published: September 24, 2020
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After completing successful audits, the following organizations achieved one or more of these NAID AAA certifications: physical destruction of hard drives, physical destruction of solid state devices, over-writing or degaussing of physical hard drives, over-writing of solid state devices.

Apto Solutions of Austin, Texas; Columbus Secure Shredding of Salt Lake City; Firelands Local of Norwalk, Ohio; Secure Shredding and Recycling of Baton Rouge, La.; ShredTex of Houston and UltraShred Technologies of Jacksonville, Fla.

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Our top stories from August 2020

Published: September 11, 2020
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Open lock against a green binary code screen.

News about a data mismanagement incident caught attention last month. | Chim/Shutterstock

A variety of articles drew our readers’ attention last month, including those covering a high-profile data loss, CRT lawsuit against OEMs, processor acquisitions and more.

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Is the e-scrap metal market cooling?

Published: August 20, 2020
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E-scrap for recycling.

While gold’s value is up 30% this year, following on the 20% improvement last year, a slight market correction has occurred in past weeks. | Andriy Malakhovskyy/Shutterstock

The value of the base and precious metals recovered from obsolete electronics has been at near record highs in recent months. However, market conditions appear to be softening.

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