Jukka-Pekka Karpinnen
Data Storage / Archiving / Erasure
Thousands of computers change owners daily, what happens to the information stored within them?

Have you ever wondered where all the information from your computer goes when you press delete? It is no longer accessible, but it does remain on the hard drive. It’s not only your own confidential documents but also your partner’s information that you have stored, not to mention e-mails, temp-files, IP addresses etc. If that computer is then passed on into someone else’s possession, that data can be recovered with specialist software. In case they are published, what could be your financial or PR consequences?