I've been looking for a local yard that would buy intact harddrives without boards. A couple of months ago found a yard that quoted something like $0.20/lb on those. Contacted them again this morning asking for their current price. They responded saying that now they CHARGE $5/drive for data destruction and attached some sort of document describing how identity theft is becoming a bigger problem every day and how anyone in possession of other people's data can be held liable for data leakage if it occurs etc etc.



Have you recently seen similar rule changes at your local yard or wherever you sold HDDs to?