• 87% of U.S. consumers have lost respect for businesses in instances where companies lost their personal information, while 96% said that protecting customers from data breaches should be a company's highest priority.
  
  — InfoSurv
  
  
• As of October 18, 2007, the total number of records containing sensitive personal information involved in security breaches since 2005 is 167,493,672.
  
  — Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
  
  
• Research from three international universities found that 37% of retired hard drives acquired through online auctions contained sensitive personal data.
  
  — Computerworld
  
  
• More than 50% of IT security professionals stated that their organization's security policies do not have clear consequences for security violations.
  
  — nCircle
  
  
• 88% of large U.S. and UK companies are in breach of data protection and information management regulations because they are unaware of the information carried on employees' mobile devices.
  
  — Coleman Parkes
  
  
• The bytes of data generated by mobile devices will equal the number of grains of sand on the Earth’s beaches within three years, according to IDC, illustrating tough choices corporations face regarding data security and regulatory compliance.
  
  — Network World
  
  
• 77% of corporate executives expect corporate responsibility initiatives to have a major impact on their business strategies during the next several years.
  
  — Grant Thornton
  
  
• By 2050, the United States must cut its emissions by at least 80 percent below those created in the year 2000 if the world is to avoid potentially dangerous impacts of human-induced climate change.
  
  — Texas Tech University, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and Stanford University
  
  
• The environmental benefit of extending the life of one computer with a CRT monitor is equivalent to taking one-half of a car off the road for a year or saving 68% of one U.S. household’s allotment of electricity for a year. Refurbishing 400 CPUs has the equivalent carbon offset of 80 cars for a year.
  
  — TechSoup
  
  
• E-waste is growing three times faster than other waste and will reach an annual global volume of 40 million tons by the end of 2008.
  
  — European Environmental Agency
  
  
• Two-thirds of companies do not use third-party disposal services, instead opting to donate old equipment, dispose of it in waste facilities, or store it for future disposal.
  
  — PC World
  
  
• An estimated 52.3 million mobile phones are currently sitting idle and unused.
  
  — Computeractive
  
  
• Laptop theft is the second most common computer crime and less than 2 percent of those stolen laptops are ever recovered.
  
  — Federal Bureau of Investigation
  
  
• About 600,000 to 1.5 million laptops are stolen or lost each year in the United States.
  
  — Denver Business Journal
  
  
• Most travelers store an average of $525,000 worth of sensitive data on their laptops.
  
  — iBahn
  
  
• Security spending to address weaknesses in wireless and mobile technology will rise by 20%.
  
  — Cisco
  
  

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