Hard drive data

AuburnEwaste: Thanks to you, I learned something new today. I didn't know that HIPAA had compliance rules for data destruction. So I get the impression that different government agencies must have different standards for hard-drive data destruction. For example, DoD is not the same as HIPAA? I'm not in this business, so I've never had to worry about compliance. I just always assumed that there was a single "gold standard" required by all the government agencies.