⚪ Whether your customers are consumers concerned about Identity Theft and Privacy, or companies concerned with protecting trade information, you are entrusted with information that they consider to be extremely confidential.
⚪ In fact, whether you know it or not, you have an "implied contract" to protect that information simply based on the fact that you are collecting the data to conduct business.
⚪ They have the legal right to expect you take every precaution to protect it, including shredding it before it is discarded.