Copiers And Privacy
The original design’s goal was to boost the copy and print process. When a page of the original paper goes beyond the copy surface, the photocopier will then scan a digital image of it with the use of a digital scanner. In regards to the copy machine’s quality, the digital scan can take from a second to half a minute. Although quite a few high-end copier machines could copy more than one page in a second, most of these copiers can process only one copy in every 5 to 10 seconds.
These high-end copiers have hard drives in them. When a digital image is scanned into the memory and controlled with respect to the user’s personal choice, it will be ready to get printed. Keep in mind though that when you are done with the copy or print work, the information in such documents will be kept by the copier’s hard drive through the use of pictures. That’s the reason why copiers can get your private information even sans your permission.
Considering that you already know the fact that copiers can eat your privacy, you might wonder if it’s possible to get the hard drive and erase the data via deleting or reformatting. Well, let me share some facts with you. Reportedly, it would generally cost you $500 to have the stored image information erased from the copiers.
Furthermore, if you know your way around data recovery, you probably know that deleted or formatted data can be recovered from the hard drive with the use of file recovery software or to be more particular, through the use of a photo recovery tool to recover pictures since the scanned data is being stored in form of photos.
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Q&A: If a buy a used copy machine and docs are on the hard drive , Do i own them also?
Question by : If a buy a used copy machine and docs are on the hard drive , Do i own them also?
I seen on the news people can buy them for around 300$ and they have hard drives. They have docs saved on them. almost no companies will erase them. So if someone got one and it has trade secrets or other goodies from a company. Do they own them also when buying the machine?
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Answer by Natty_Dread
As long as second hand copy machines are concerned, finding documents inside its hard drive after purchasing it doesn’t mean that you own those documents already. You can be held liable for copyright infringements, especially if you are going to use those materials personally. You only bought the machine in the first place and documents inside the machine you bought were not part of the transaction, unless it has something to do with the machine itself (e.g. machine manual).
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