Android phones cannot remove all your personal data with factory reset
Wiping your phones for resale may seem like a simple task, but for Android phones, it’s likely to be a lot more painstaking than your typical factory reset.
The security team at Avast used their data-recovery tools on 20 phones found on eBay. What they find was rather shocking. Avast was able to retrieve 40,000 photos, 750 emails, 250 contacts with names and addresses, and even one completed loan application. Obviously some of the photos were pornographic – about 250 of the photos were nude male selfies.
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