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.

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    2 years ago

    That’s also impossible for most tablets and phones, which are probably holding more sensitive information on them than laptops these days…