Articles Featuring Back Thru The Future

April 2009 Green Entrepreneurs Article features Back Thru The Future president Melanie J. Haga and her efforts in environmental computer recycling.
More Magazine

April 2009 Computer Conservation Data destruction programs provide environmentally sound ways to eliminate outdated equipment.
Inside Counsel Magazine

June 2008 Saving Money. And Reputation Proper Disposal of Electronic Records.
Dan Bayha, VP, Back Thru The Future (BTTF)
New Jersey Lawyer Magazine

March 2008 The Afterlife of E-Waste BTTF President, Melanie Haga is interviewed for this article. See the video and read the insert called "Shredding the Data Trail" about proper disposal of records stored on hard drives.
Flyp Media

January 2008 Handle With Care Proper data storage and disposal strategies provide essential protection for law firms and their clients.
Dan Bayha, VP BTTF Legal Management Magazine

December 2007 Data Destruction “Clearly, within any company, someone such as the general counsel should look at hardware disposal, make a statement about policy and ensure employees comply and are aware of the legal reasons for
doing it that way,” says Daniel Bayha, vice president and CFO of Back Thru The Future Computer Recycling Inc., “The old practices just don’t cut it any longer.”
Keith Ecker Inside Counsel Magazine

November 2007 Physical Data Security, Management and Destruction for Legal IT Professionals "While at BTTF, I witnessed the hard drive shredding process, which was done by a massive, custom-built machine that pulverized drives, backup tapes, CDs, Blackberrys and other data media. ...The hard drives were transformed into small scraps of metal and plastic — completely unrecognizable..."
Michael Chung, Lester Schwab Katz & Dwyer, LLP LJN's Legal Tech Newsletter

September 2007 Lock Down Your Company’s Physical Security
Ensuring proper storage, handling and disposal of data media.
Dan Bayha, VP BTTF IT Defense Magazine Cover Story

August 2007 Shred It Or Dread It Destroying data at the end of its lifecycle must be a process, not a onetime project; this is important for the destruction activity to qualify as a FRCP(Federal Rules of Civil Procedure) defined ‘Safe Harbor’ data destruction event,” says Dan Bayha, vice president of Back Thru The Future. “It’s an ongoing discipline which law firms need to cultivate, and also something they need to advise their clients about.”
Christy Burke New Jersey Law Journal

August 2007 The American Lawyer, the nation's leading monthly magazine for lawyers, featured Back Thru The Future’s Safe Harbor Data Destruction in its August BarTalk column, under the title “Appetite for Destruction”. The column chronicled the Safe Harbor process from cradle to grave, starting with hard drives as they left a NYC law firm via armored vehicle and ending up at BTTF’s sizeable shredding machine. Click here to request an official reprint.
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July 2007 Get Back to the Real World of Security
“Failure to destroy data when the time comes can have heavy financial consequences,” Bayha (VP, BTTF) cautions.“Imagine if the company was sued and that data from unpurged drives and tapes was all discoverable. Processing that data could cost clients thousands or millions of dollars in consulting fees. Whatever isn’t destroyed can be discoverable, so having a destruction regimen is critical to law firms and their clients.”
Christy Burke e-Discovery Law & Strategy

January 2007 Recycling Efforts No Match for Surging E-Waste Stream. The growing part of the recycling business is in the back of the (BTTF) warehouse, where a giant grinder shreds computer hard drives, Blackberrys and cell phones into inch-long scraps of metal and plastic. The pieces are then shipped to a smelter, which melts them down. In return, corporations concerned about protecting company secrets and individuals concerned about identity theft get a certificate promising the data contained on their computers is gone for good.
Kelly Heyboer Star-Ledger

April 2006 How to Deal with the Legal “Catch 22”
of Electronic Data Destruction How does an organization comply with the two legal requirements mandating the destruction of obsolete sensitive personal data and the termination of data destruction during litigation?
Dan Bayha, VP BTTF ISSA Journal

Blog Buzz...

October 2007 How To Properly Destroy a Hard Drive...Brett Burney, ediscoveryinfo.com says, BTTF may be one of the best ways to be absolutely sure you’ve destroyed data because otherwise you could be taking a chance that some data will be left behind.

September 2007 BTTF is mentioned in Sharon Nelson's "ride the lightning" Electronic Evidence Blog
NO BLINDFOLDS, NO CIGARETTES: CONDEMNED HARD DRIVES"In a shower of sparks and hums, crackles and pops, the media is rendered into shreds by a machine that looks much like an industrial air conditioner."

Secure Destruction Expertise

ARMA International Conference & Expo, Las Vegas, NV, October 2008. Dan Bayha, VP BTTF will present an education session titled "Effectively Implementing and Managing Data Disposal and Destruction" Please click to download a free copy of Dan's session Proceedings Paper

New Jersey Division of Local Government Services (DLGS) approved BTTF VP, Dan Bayha's session for continuing education units (CEU).  Course # 8862 “Effective Implementation and Management of the Disposal of Electronic Records” is valued at 1 CEU, General/Secondary - Certified Tax Collectors, 1 CEU, Office Management, Ancillary Subjects - Certified Finance Officers (County and Municipal) and 1 CEU, Records – Municipal Clerks. Inquiries may be directed to Sonia Schenker, Special Projects Manager, 973-823-9752 xt. 22

Dan Bayha’s Lecture On Physical Data Security For Lawline.com Approved For CLE Credit By New York and California. Answering physical data security concerns for lawyers, Daniel F. Bayha, vice president of Back Thru the Future, created “Best Practices for Data Security and Sensitive Client Data,” an online Continuing Legal Education (CLE) course on Lawline.com. The course was approved for CLE credit by New York and California.

White Paper The Physical Security Side of Electronic Data Discovery: From Preservation to Destruction Dan Bayha, VP BTTF Law.com

Professional Association Activity

NAID (National Association for Information Destruction) BTTF VP Dan Bayha was NAID's 2006 Member of the Year for his contribution to the NAID committee responsible for establishing the secure data destruction industry’s certification standards relating to the destruction of electronic media.

ARMA International BTTF VP Dan Bayha is an active member of ARMA's committee to establish the records management association’s Guidelines on Contracted Destruction For Records and Information Media.

Back Thru The Future in the Press

November 2008 NATIONAL CERTIFICATION Back Thru The Future Technology Disposal achieved national certification as a Women’s Business Enterprise.

July 2008 IDENTITY THEFT PREVENTION JUST GOT EASIER Back Thru The Future Technology Disposal (BTTF) announces the launch of Safe Harbor Express (SafeHarborExpress.com), the secure, convenient and affordable solution to the challenge of how to destroy electronic records. Shredding prevents any possibility of data
recovery and generates nearly 100% recyclable material - a green solution.

June 2008 National Association For Information Destruction (NAID) Recertifies Technology Disposal Industry Leader Scheduled Destruction of Electronic Records is a Best Practice in Business. After a rigorous annual audit, NAID, the international, non-profit trade association of the information destruction industry, has recertified Back Thru The Future Computer Recycling, extending its AAA Certification rating...

June 2008 Environmental Leadership Award Goes To Computer Recycler The Sussex County Economic Development Partnership has selected Back Thru The Future Technology Disposal (BTTF) for its 2007 annual environmental leadership award.

November 2007 Technology Disposal Company Captures Business Success Award From New Jersey Small Business Development Centers Back Thru the Future (BTTF), headquartered in Ogdensburg, provides proper environmental disposal of electronics and secure data destruction for hard drives, PDAs, cell phones, CDs and backup media.

November 2007 Andover Township Is First Sussex County Municipality to Adopt Technology Disposal Program Melanie Haga, President of Back Thru The Future (BTTF) in Ogdensburg and Tim Day, Andover Township CFO, jointly announce the participation of Andover Township in BTTF’s new municipal technology disposal program.

October 2007 Free School Computer Disposal Program Hits 25 Tons Melanie Haga, CEO of Back Thru The Future Computer Recycling (BTTF), located in Ogdensburg, announced that a twenty-five ton milestone has been reached in her company’s free Sussex County public school computer recycling program.

June 2007 NJ Schools Win With Free Electronic Recycling “The free recycling project for Sussex County Schools has done so well, we have decided to extend the boundaries to all New Jersey Schools”, says BTTF president, Melanie Haga. She adds, “School budgets don’t usually cover costs associated with meeting state regulatory requirements for electronic equipment recycling and our company wanted to step up and be part of a solution.”

April 2007 Data Destruction Scores Entrepreneurial Success Award At a recent awards presentation, Back Thru The Future was pleased to accept the Sussex County Chamber of Commerce Entrepreneurial Success Award.

January 2007 Dunbar Armored Announces Secure Data and Hard Drive Disposal Program with Back Thru The Future Computer Recycling. Partnership program provides organizations with secure transportation and certified destruction of sensitive data and computer hard drives.