Laws & Compliance
Understanding the laws, regulations, and industry standards that guide how your business protects, manages, and securely destroys sensitive information.
Why Compliance Matters
Is Your Business Legally Protected?
Federal and state laws require businesses to properly protect and dispose of sensitive documents and data. Failure to do so can lead to fines, legal exposure, data breaches, and reputational damage. Renewed Solutions provides secure, documented destruction services designed to support your compliance obligations — with a clear chain of custody and the documentation to prove your information was properly destroyed.
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Compliance Standards & Regulations
Key Laws You Need to Know
HIPAA requires covered healthcare organizations and their business associates to implement appropriate administrative, technical and physical safeguards for protected health information (PHI). These protections extend through the disposal of PHI. Appropriate disposal methods can include shredding or otherwise destroying paper records so information cannot reasonably be read or reconstructed. Electronic PHI may require clearing, purging or physical destruction of the media depending on the circumstances.
Who It Affects
Healthcare providers, Health plans, Healthcare clearinghouses, Certain business associates handling PHI, Organizations providing services involving PHI
How Renewed Helps
Renewed Solutions provides secure destruction solutions for paper records and electronic media containing sensitive healthcare information, supported by documented processes and chain of custody.
The HITECH Act strengthened HIPAA's privacy, security, breach-notification and enforcement framework and expanded certain HIPAA responsibilities directly to business associates. Organizations handling electronic protected health information must take appropriate measures to protect that information throughout its lifecycle.
Who It Affects
Healthcare organizations and business associates that create, receive, maintain or transmit protected health information.
How Renewed Helps
Renewed Solutions provides secure destruction of paper records, hard drives and other data-bearing electronic media to help healthcare organizations and their service providers protect information through final disposition.
The FACTA Disposal Rule requires businesses and individuals that use consumer reports for a business purpose to take reasonable and appropriate measures when disposing of consumer-report information. Proper disposal can include: Shredding or pulverizing paper records, Destroying or securely erasing electronic files and media, Using a qualified document-destruction provider
Who It Affects
Organizations that use consumer-report information, including: Employers, Lenders, Insurers, Landlords and property managers, Mortgage brokers, Automobile dealers, Attorneys, Debt collectors, Government agencies, Other businesses using background or consumer reports
How Renewed Helps
Renewed Solutions provides secure destruction services for paper and electronic records containing sensitive consumer information.
The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and FTC Safeguards Rule require covered financial institutions to implement safeguards designed to protect customer information. The Safeguards Rule addresses the entire information lifecycle, including the secure disposal of customer information. Covered organizations also have responsibilities for selecting and overseeing service providers that may have access to customer information.
Who It Affects
Depending on their activities, covered organizations can include: Financial institutions, Mortgage lenders and brokers, Finance companies, Collection agencies, Tax preparation firms, Financial advisors, Certain automobile dealers, Credit counselors, Other businesses engaged in covered financial activities
How Renewed Helps
Renewed Solutions provides controlled document and electronic-data destruction processes to help organizations securely dispose of customer information and manage information-security risk.
Modern information security doesn't end when a computer or hard drive leaves your building. NIST Special Publication 800-88 Revision 2 provides current guidance for organizations establishing media-sanitization programs for hard drives, solid-state storage and other data-bearing media. Published in September 2025, Revision 2 emphasizes establishing an enterprise media-sanitization program and selecting appropriate sanitization techniques based on the sensitivity of the information and intended disposition of the media. Simply deleting files or formatting a drive may not constitute appropriate sanitization. Organizations should establish procedures for securely sanitizing or physically destroying data-bearing devices before reuse, resale, recycling or disposal.
Who It Affects
Any organization that manages data-bearing media including hard drives, solid-state drives, USB devices, and other storage equipment.
How Renewed Helps
Renewed Solutions provides electronic recycling, hard-drive destruction and secure handling of data-bearing equipment to help organizations maintain control over sensitive information through final disposition.
Texas law requires businesses to protect sensitive personal information collected or maintained in the regular course of business. When customer records containing sensitive personal information are no longer required to be retained, businesses must destroy or arrange for their destruction by: Shredding, Erasing, Or otherwise modifying the information so that it becomes unreadable or indecipherable
Who It Affects
Businesses maintaining sensitive personal information about Texas customers
How Renewed Helps
Renewed Solutions provides secure document shredding and electronic data destruction services designed to help businesses properly destroy sensitive information when records reach the end of their required retention period.
FERPA protects the privacy of personally identifiable information contained in student education records. Schools and educational organizations routinely maintain sensitive information in both paper and electronic formats and must protect FERPA-covered information from unauthorized disclosure.
Who It Affects
FERPA generally applies to educational institutions that receive funds under applicable U.S. Department of Education programs.
How Renewed Helps
Renewed Solutions provides secure document and electronic-media destruction services that can support an educational institution's information-security and records-disposal procedures.
Stay Compliant. Stay Protected.
Don't leave your business exposed to regulatory fines and data breach liability. Renewed Solutions provides certified document and data destruction services with the documentation you need to prove compliance.