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Does wiping your old Android phone’s data truly protect your privacy?
A new report from Avast cautions us to think carefully about how protected our data is before we resell our smartphones and tablets. According to their research, out of the 20 used phones that the anti-virus company purchased from Ebay, they were able to recover 40,000 photos (nude pics, too), 750 emails and texts, 250 contacts, the identity of four of the phone’s past owners, a nearly complete loan application and a lot more.
