Copiers Can Eat Your Privacy

The original design’s goal was to accelerate the copy and print process. Whenever a page of the original paper goes over the copy surface, the photocopier then scans a digital image of it through the use of a digital scanner.  With respect to the copy machine’s quality, the digital scan can take between a second to around half a minute. Even though quite a few high-end copier machines could copy more than one page in a second, the majority of these copiers can process only one copy in every 5 to 10 seconds.

Such high-end copiers have hard drives in them. Whenever a digital image is scanned into the memory and controlled according to the user’s personal choice, it will be all set to get printed. Remember though that once you get done with the copy or print work, the information in those documents is kept by the copier’s hard drive through the use of images. That’s the reason why copiers can get your private information even without your permission.

And given that you already know the fact that copiers can eat your privacy, you might get to thinking that it’s possible to get the hard drive and erase the data through deleting or reformatting. Well, let me shine some light on you. Reportedly, it would generally cost you $500 to have the stored image information erased from the copiers.

Aside from that, if you know your way around data recovery, you probably know that deleted or formatted data may actually be recovered from the hard drive through the use of file recovery software or to be more specific, with the use of a photo recovery tool to recover images since the scanned data is being stored in form of photos.

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