GDPR specialist warns advisers against 'hammering' PCs to delete data

Speaking on the Compliance and Training Solutions (CATS) and Astrid webinar on 26 September, Astrid managing director and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) specialist Gerrard Fisher advised listeners against beating a machine with a hammer to clear it of important data. Fisher suggested, if advisers were seeking to destroy data, it would instead be better to go to specialist, where they would likely use a specialist shredder and give the adviser a certificate proving the hardware had been destroyed. "If you are going to get data destroyed, you want to get it done in a recognis...