The stories on this are really ridiculous, Anybody in IT will tell you that the only really sure way of making sure sensitive data not left on devices is to destroy the device. Disk drives are often mechanically destroyed when computers are decommissioned in businesses. Solid state devices such as SSD’s phones, etc are physically destroyed. It is actually a very desirable practice to protect information.
The stories on this are really ridiculous, Anybody in IT will tell you that the only really sure way of making sure sensitive data not left on devices is to destroy the device. Disk drives are often mechanically destroyed when computers are decommissioned in businesses. Solid state devices such as SSD’s phones, etc are physically destroyed. It is actually a very desirable practice to protect information.