Local business owners can help protect their identity by shredding documents with sensitive information, Better Business Bureau officials said. BBB is inviting individuals and businesses to participate in the seventh annual Secure Your ID Day and offering document shredding and hard drive destruction Saturday, April 21.
The event will be from 8:30-11 a.m. at Calhoun Community College’s Limestone County campus and from 1- 3:30 p.m. at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville. BBB officials also will offer advice and resources to help consumers and businesses protect themselves from identity theft. Participants are invited to bring boxes or bags of paper documents to safely shred in a commercial shredding truck in a quick and easy drive through arrangement. Hard drives should be removed from the computer before arrival. Standard hard drives will be crushed on-site and larger hard drives will be incinerated after the event.
“Shredding sensitive paper documents is an important first step, but it doesn’t end there,” said Tricia Pruitt of the BBB. “That’s why BBB experts will also be distributing important advice and simple steps everyone can take to prevent ID theft in their daily lives, both online and off.”
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