PrivAce Technologies retires IT for studios, VFX houses, post-production and broadcasters across India: render nodes, edit and colour workstations, storage, shuttle drives and tape. Media is wiped, degaussed or shredded with erasure reports and certificates, and serial-level lists when your content security assessment asks for them.
What is at stake
Why disposal needs care here.
Unreleased content is the product. A shuttle drive or render node that leaves without its data destroyed can end up as a leak.
The MPA Content Security Best Practices, maintained through the Trusted Partner Network (TPN), include a Destruction control that expects media to be erased, degaussed, shredded or destroyed before disposal, a certificate of destruction when a third party does it, and destruction logs kept for at least a year.
Rules that apply
The requirements behind a disposal policy.
Plain summaries with links to the source. Your legal and compliance teams decide how they apply to you.
MPA Content Security Best Practices (TPN), control OP-3.2 Destruction: Erase, degauss, shred or destroy media before disposal; certificate of destruction from third parties; complete destruction within 30 days; keep destruction logs for at least one year; NIST SP 800-88 referenced for wiping.
ISO/IEC 27001:2022, controls 7.14 and 8.10: Control 7.14 covers secure disposal or reuse of equipment, and 8.10 covers deletion of information. Certified organisations need evidence for both.
Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and DPDP Rules, 2025: Personal data on a retired device is still your responsibility. Failing to take reasonable security safeguards can attract a penalty of up to ₹250 crore. Most obligations apply from 13 May 2027.
What we do
How we handle it for you.
Shuttle drives, RAID sets and LTO tapes destroyed, with serials recorded on request
Render farm and edit suite decommissioning
Certificates formatted for content security assessments
Onsite shredding where content may not leave the facility
Questions
Questions, answered.
Yes. Tape is degaussed or shredded, and each cartridge is recorded on the certificate.
They record the method and the date, with serial numbers listed on request, which is what the destruction control asks for. Your assessor makes the final call.
Onsite destruction is certified the same day. Offsite destruction is certified within 2 working days, well inside the 30 days the MPA guidance mentions.
Yes, after verified wiping. Recent nodes with professional GPUs are often reusable.
