warning: Be careful when getting rid of your old mobile phone.
imrightok
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I'm a bit of a hoarder so I haven't gotten rid of any of my old phones.
http://www.wthr.com/story/21419450/cell-phone-warning-deleted-personal-information-often-left-behind
http://www.wthr.com/story/21419450/cell-phone-warning-deleted-personal-information-often-left-behind
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Does that include iPhones?! Because iPhones can be restored to factory settings when selling to somebody my iPhone 4 was used by another family member before they handed it down to me but it doesn't contain their info on there because it was restored to factory settings before I could use it
On it were photos of of personal photos.
My friend works on the telly, so if that phone had got in to the wrong hands she would have been mortified.
I gave it back and told her what was on it.
We just laughed
To tell the truth ,I didn't check the date on the link. Channel 4 tend to show what's coming on the news during the ad break of the proceeding programme and as I taped the programme I didn't get to see the news. So I looked on-line to get the story. But as this was last week , I assume the problem still exist, unless it just affects some phones.
Although the article is a year old the issue is still valid. IPhones are included. The issue is that a factory reset itself is often insufficient to actually delete all personal data.