Article archive / August 1, 2012
Originally published: . Volume 3, No. 12. Source pages: 5.
Several government agencies and general business groups are continuing to develop awareness about how office copiers pose security risks.
Last year CBS news found that nearly all copiers built since 2002 contain a type of hard drive that retains a image of a document copied or scanned. Office copiers may cause a breach of medical privacy laws, and this is especially the case if people do not know remove the hard drive memory when either selling the machine or returning it, if leased. Also, simply putting it in the trash pickup may result in violation of confidentiality.
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