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Must Read – How to print sensitive documents on public printers – 03/07/19

Just don’t. Okay, I admit I am being rather unreasonable. However if you have any other alternative to printing tax receipts, pay stubs, benefits statements and the like, please use it.  We are human beings after all and we get distracted. On a regular basis our techs pick up abandoned print jobs with sensitive information that should not be on public display. Here is the latest one.

With the tax season in full swing, we are seeing a lot of these types of documents left abandoned by their owners.  If you do not have any other means of printing sensitive documents other than using public printers, please take the following precautions:

  1. Check twice to ensure you are sending the print job to the correct printer.
  2. Be standing by the printer as the document is being printed.
  3. If the document does not print, assume you have sent it to the wrong printer and immediately look for it. Do not attempt to print the document again until you are 100% sure it has not been sent to another printer.

Taking these simple inconvenient steps will help prevent miscreants from using  your student number, SIN or other personal information for their gain and your misfortune. It will also keep how much you earn from being the latest water cooler gossip.

 

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