Anthony Weiner Alert?
Android. Google. “Don’t Be Evil”. ‘nuff said?
OOOOO, they can find photos that were deleted! And what right do they have to do that? And what do the undeleted photos prove?
There is a lot of data hanging around in devices that people are unaware of.
Any time you have data moving around in a device it is possible to look at the data and store it somewhere if needed.
Checksums of images can be stored in only a few bytes of data. Text can be compressed enormously and stored. Date/time/location can be stored in a few bytes....
Pretty much any device is smart now... meaning there is a processor on board that can be programmed to do nearly anything with data. Flash memory is extremely cheap now and is a good way to store data.
Data can be transmitted by many means as well... two old-school methods are RF and alterations in the timing of various processes. Don’t imagine that RF has to be picked up by a nearby receiver... there are systems with greater than 85Db of gain involved in this and communication can even be two-way.
Even a hobbyist can play in this arena. I took an 80 cent ATtiny85 and stuck it into a keyboard to look for character strings and store them in the tiny amount of flash inside the chip...easy peezey. Entering a certain sequence of characters caused the stored data to be sent as if it were being typed again. (I used notepad to capture the keystrokes)