{"id":1486,"date":"2019-11-12T14:25:19","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T14:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/?p=1486"},"modified":"2019-11-19T10:52:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T10:52:05","slug":"getting-ready-for-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/getting-ready-for-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Ready for 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>2020 is fast approaching. Rather than leaving things to the last minute, now is the time to begin your end of year clear-out. What needs to be shredded and what needs to be kept in storage? As a general rule, older archives past the 7-year date mark should be destroyed. This whole process can be overwhelming and time consuming however in order to keep the procedure as time efficient and simple as possible there are a few questions you should ask yourself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"638\" src=\"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Office-Clutter-Clear-out.png\" alt=\"Office Documents in Boxes\" class=\"wp-image-1487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Office-Clutter-Clear-out.png 960w, https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Office-Clutter-Clear-out-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Office-Clutter-Clear-out-768x510.png 768w, https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Office-Clutter-Clear-out-451x300.png 451w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>What<\/strong> is the type of data?<\/li><li><strong>Why<\/strong> do you have it? Do you really need it? Is it easy to get that information again if you need it down the line?<\/li><li><strong>Where<\/strong> is it kept? Is it kept in filing cabinets? Or is it digitally saved?<\/li><li><strong>When<\/strong> was it acquired? Has it been over 7 years ago? Is it time to remove it from your records?<\/li><li><strong>Who<\/strong> has access to it? <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Pile-of-documents-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Organised documents\" class=\"wp-image-1488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Pile-of-documents-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Pile-of-documents-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Pile-of-documents-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Pile-of-documents-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Pile-of-documents.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Answering these questions should provide you with the necessary solutions you need in order to keep compliant with the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"GDPR (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/eugdpr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">GDPR<\/a>. When asking yourself these questions it is important to consider all forms of data; confidential paper, hard-drives and media devices, or branded products such as business cards or uniforms etc. Once all this is organised it is time to contact your trusted shredding company who can provide you with options for the certified destruction of your data. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sooner you begin; the sooner you are ready for the new year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 is fast approaching. Rather than leaving things to the last minute, now is the time to begin your end of year clear-out. What needs to be shredded and what needs to be kept in storage? As a general rule, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/getting-ready-for-2020\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,8,71,25,24,26],"tags":[33,48,89],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1516,"href":"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions\/1516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}