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Record Storage Facilities:
The National Association of Information Destruction found most record storage facilities offer destruction services to their customers but many of those firms were lacking equipment or security practices or both. Finding it to be a common practice to subcontract the destruction of records. In many cases, some firms were found misleading their customers by charging for secure records destruction while the materials were being sold to a recycling company for scrap or giving the paper to brokers for their profit just to extract it from their possession without cost. Any business using record storage should not allow a shred of information to be designated destroyed other than by a contractor they choose after the data has been audited first then securing the chain of custody until it is witnessed being destroyed. This procedure is essential in the event of litigation.