If a thumb drive/flash card/hard drive is purchased from ebay or a garage sale and the individual is able to recover pictures and files off of that hardware, does the individual then own that data?
Most people, when they sell their old computer hardware or camera, simply format the drive and then sell it. This is a reminder to use killdisk to get rid of the data on the storage medium. It is all too easy to recover someone's deleted data. If you have questions, let me know!
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ReplyDeleteHE LIVES!!!
And yes, said individual owns the data. If I go to a second hand store & find a ring in the pocket of a pair of pants I buy, I own the ring as well. Or the parable of the guy who buys a field so he can rightfully dig up the pearl he found on a previous visit.