Technicians from overnight repair shops access personal data and sometimes also copy data from their clients’ devices, researchers in Canada find. Devices belonging to females were more likely to be snooped on, and snooping tended to seek more sensitive data, including both sexually revealing and non-sexual pictures, documents, and financial information.

  • @sproid
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    31 year ago

    If you cannot moves sensitive files to another storage device temporarily then, people should have those encrypted. With something like Cryptomator software.