Author: terrymterrym
Date: Jul 20, 2008 22:10
I recently sold the assets of a limited company (not the limited company
itself) under an asset purchase agreement. The agreement was supplied
with numerous warranties.
The IT system was included in the sale (about 10 pc's) to enable the
buyer to continue running th online retail business. I asked for the
hard drive out of an important pc duing contract signing telling them
it had personal data on it. The buyers refused to let me take it. I
therefore deleted most if not all of this data and left Windows XP etc
running.
I was told the next day they had called in an expert to undelete the
files. I then heard that they had found old MSN conversation histories
mainly between directors but also between staff. They had sent these
conversation histories via email to other members of the buyers group
for them all to read. As soon as I heard of this I emailed the parties
involved and told them I was aware they were in illegal possession of
illegaly recovered personal data unrelated to them and they must
confirm by return they have deleted it and will not discuss or use it's
contents.
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