On Monday, the Federal Trade Commission requested public comment on the continuing relevance a decade-old data protection rule.
The Disposal Rule, part of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA), requires businesses to render consumer reports including credit and background checks unreadable before disposing of them. That can mean shredding or burning documents, or using more thorough methods of deleting a digital document than dragging it to the trash icon.
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