(from TechNewsWorld, http://www.technewsworld.com/)
By Richard Adhikari
That phone you so callously turned over to another may be harboring some of your secrets — and it may be all too willing to spill its guts. An examination of 20 used phones purchased on eBay turned up more than 1,500 family photos of kids, 750 photos of women in various stages of undress, and more than 250 selfies of men’s nether regions, according to Avast.
Doing a factory reset to wipe the data off smartphones does not work, and the data can be recovered, warned Avast .
The company recovered tons of data, including more than 40,000 stored photographs, from 20 used Android phones purchased from eBay.
Device owners need to overwrite their files to make them irretrievable, Avast said, touting one of the applications it offers.
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