Android factory reset doesn’t fully erase data: Report

[Anup Tiwari]

NEW DELHI: If you frequently buy
and sell Android smartphones (or
review a different one every few
weeks), it's likely that you're leaving
traces of personal data even if you
use the phone's factory reset
feature, before passing on the phone
to someone else.
According to a new study titled
'Security Analysis of Android Factory
Resets' by Cambridge University,
Android's factory reset option does
not let you get rid of all your
personal data. As part of the study,
researchers tested 21 smartphones
made by five different device makers
running Android 2.3 to 4.3.
They found that all devices retained
a part of the users' old data which
included SMS, e-mails, pictures and
videos and contact information from
third party apps such as Facebook
and WhatsApp.



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[nskaran]

means we are selling our personnel data along with mobile:skd so be careful thanks bro:clap

 

[hrkansagara]

means we are selling our personnel data along with mobile:skd so be careful thanks bro:clap

yes nskaran dear, that's true.
that's why i have habbit of first clearing data and cache of application then only uninstall application and afterwards only to make factory rest so making it 100% sure that no app has data and cache left.