Experiment finds hundreds of ‘dirty photos’ can be recovered from used phones

[Guest Yoni Heisler]

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Every year, thousands if not millions of consumers either sell their old smartphones for cash or trade them in for next-gen devices, whether they be new iPhones, new Samsung Galaxy models, or even new Windows Phone devices.

 

While this set-up between smartphone owners and trade-in companies has been mutually beneficial for years, a new study finds that it's remarkably easy to access personal and sensitive data from old smartphones. Recently, Avast Software purchased 20 used smartphones from pawn shops across 4 worldwide cities - New York, Paris, Barcelona and Berlin. Following that, a free software recovery tool was used to determine what type of private information happened to be retrievable, and the results should be quite concerning for anyone looking to part with their existing device.

 

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