Don't let your old computer get into the wrong hands!!!

Never in history has so much information been produced by so many people. We are swamped by electronic data, a tidal wave of gigabytes. Indeed, the world is probably producing more recorded information every second than it did in the entire 19th century.

With so much data - a stream of binary digits that includes everything from your holiday photos to your bank details to every email you and everyone else on Earth has ever written - it is not surprising that some of it often goes missing.

We have all heard of the hapless civil servants who leave laptops and memory sticks containing our personal details on trains or in taxis. But what few people realise is just how easy it is to recover deleted data from old computers - and the implications of this fact. More...

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