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What happens to ICO fines?

What happens to ICO fines?

Last week, the ICO fined facial recognition database company, Clearview AI Inc, £7,552,800 and ordered the company to delete all data about UK residents. The UK’s Information Commissioner, John Edwards, said that: “Clearview AI Inc has collected multiple images of people all over the world, including in the UK, from a variety of websites and.

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Ten things you never knew could be shredded

Ten things you never knew could be shredded

When you think of shredding, you may imagine a small paper shredder that destroys a few documents at a time. Or, if we’re thinking wishfully, you may imagine a shredding service provider like us, with a warehouse full of tonnes of shredded paperwork. What you might not imagine is some of the more strange and.

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2,000-mile challenge

Shred Station’s 2,000-Mile Challenge

In June 2022, our Charity Challenge team is working together to collectively walk, run, swim, cycle or row 2,000 miles in aid of tree planting projects across the world. With an aim of planting 10,000 trees this year, our team has taken on various challenges to raise vital funds for tree-planting projects. This has included.

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Sustainable Wind Farm

Shred Station’s Carbon Offsetting Projects for 2022

Carbon emissions are, unfortunately, inevitable. At Shred Station, we do many things to reduce our emissions including the use of renewable solar power and having a Euro 6 low emission fleet. For everything we can’t reduce, we offset to net-zero. We are in our fourth year of CarbonNeutral® certification, and each year, we support different.

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