Cellphone data is not secure: Rehman Malik

ISLAMABAD: Cellphone data is not safe and secure and it can be retrieved at any time, Senator Rehman Malik, former security CZAR warned people.

He said the data in mobilephone is not secure even you throw away your phone in jungle or drop it in water. “Your data could be recovered even if you threw away your cellphone in the jungle or it fell in the water,” Malik told a reporter in Islamabad.

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Experts are also of the view that it’s almost impossible to delete the data from the mobilephone.

“It’s hard to delete,” Ammar Jafri, a former FIA official, told a TV Channel, adding that there are countless softwares in the market that could recover your data.”

In October, private data of singer and actor Rabi Pirzada was leaked on the social media. According to reports, she had deleted the data from her cellphone before selling it.

However, the accused recovered the deleted data and leaked it online.

TNT Report

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