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Why ‘deleted’ doesn’t mean gone: How police recovered Nancy Guthrie’s doorbell footage (www.theverge.com)
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Investigators pulled video from ‘residual data’ in Google’s systems — here’s how that was possible and what it means for your privacy.

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[–] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Even local files still “exist” when you delete them. Usually the filesystem just marks those blocks as reusable since overwriting the data would take a lot longer.

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