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0:11 These are hard drives. And I am pretty sure you will also have this type of storage drives. There is storage in your laptop, in your PC or in your phone. It will contain a lot of your photos and videos and a lot of your data. And if I say that you cannot delete your photos, videos or data even if you want to. Hey, what are you talking about, yesterday I deleted the entire gallery and also removed from recently deleted. Yes still those files will be lying in some corner of your drive from where it can be recovered. Have you ever wondered how recovery software is able to recover your data? because it has never gone anywhere. This means my photos never got deleted ! Yes, it means that if your phone or your laptop goes to someone else, then
1:00 he will have all your files, photos and videos, even after you delete them. So this means your data is not secure anywhere, let's know how? This is my hard drive and there's a photo of mine on it, I'll delete it. It is now deleted from the recycle bin as well, which is like a temporary location. Now what happened here, the file is also gone and the storage is also empty. But this did not happen, here the software changed the location of that file. That file is somewhere, but you cannot access it. And this location is not a folder, it can be any random place on your hard drive or your storage. It is as if this paper is my storage, that is, what I write on it is my file. Now to delete this file, I'll erase it. And if you look carefully, now you will see a little bit of text here.
1:47 But now there is space here to write something else. So what is the solution, how do we delete our photos permanently? So if I write something else on this paper and erase it again. Then again I write something else and then erase it. So are you able to read the first text very well now? No, it's a bit faded. Yes, similarly when storage keeps pasting multiple files at the same place, then after some time that old file gets faded. And it is equally difficult to recover it. Difficult but not impossible. In fact, sources say that by pasting a file 35 times at one location, it becomes very difficult to recover it. But 35 times neither of you or me would want to do that. So what are the options you have so that your file gets deleted permanently? What if you format the hard drive?
2:32 No, there are many such software which can recover your data from formatted data. What if I destroy the hard drive itself? Very good answer, but no, there are many people like you who damage their storage devices, so that the data can never be recovered. But there are many such machines and tools in the market, so that you can recover the remaining data even from the damaged drive. Then your secret photos and videos are not as safe as you think. Even the scrap dealer who comes to your house has taken your old computer, but he will sell each part of that computer separately. The processor will be sold separately, the storage will be sold separately, some parts will be used to make new parts and the data will be recovered from the storage and sold to the company. Which can contain your emails, contacts, addresses, photos, videos and a lot of data
3:21 And this data is bought by scammers who come on WhatsApp and claim to have won the grand prize of Kaun Banega Crorepati. *Sir, I am talking on behalf of WhatsApp, from the head office of WhatsApp, you have won the lottery on the number of WhatsApp, the price is 25 lakhs from WhatsApp.* Hey bro, I have put all my secret photos & videos in the hidden app locker app. Without password not only me but also my father cannot access it. So now you have got trapped in another big scam. When you install any app, you get a prompt that this app wants to access your gallery. Means that app wants to access your gallery. Now it can read or write anything in your gallery. Suppose in a way, it can download or upload any photo from your gallery. And not only this, access to gallery, contacts, location, microphone, SMS
4:10 and even if you have copied any text, these apps can access that too. On the one hand, your bank's OTP will come in SMS, you will copy it but you will forget it. But after copying that OTP, these apps will keep it on their servers forever. When you use Applocker or any similar photo or video hiding apps, when you upload your photos and videos in it, it goes directly to their servers. Now those secret photos or videos of yours may or may not remain in your phone but are definitely lying on their servers. That's why having a trusted app is very important. And I would say that you must read their reviews before installing the app. And my advice would be that you should not use such applocker or photo hiding apps. Give any app access to anything after thinking carefully.
4:55 Like a few days ago I downloaded this wallpaper app. Now why does it need my contacts or my location, I just had to download a wallpaper. So you also have to avoid these apps thinking something like this. Now if your data goes to these apps even once, then it goes directly to their servers. Now these apps keep your data saved on their servers. Because every company wants to know the behaviour of its user, what he likes and what not. And every small detail like once you go into the app, how long do you spend there. What time and where did you click, do you like red color t-shirt or blue. Do you like cats or dogs, yes even such small details. What are you typing to others, on their apps. For these apps, it is all like a data, they use your information only for you so that they can sell their product.
5:43 And who are its customers, you guys. Your every step is collected like a data and uploaded on their servers. After that, if that data gets leaked, the hacker sells it. I am sorry but in reality this data is sold by hackers to rivalry companies after being leaked. These include emails, contacts, home addresses, photos, videos, texts, and much more data. Every year millions of people's data gets leaked from some app or website. 2020 Big Basket Data Breach. Big Basket, which is an online grocery store, data of around 73 million users gets leaked from their servers. Which contained their emails, phone numbers, home addresses. And if you have ever used BigBasket, then it is possible that your personal information may have been leaked.
6:31 2021 Air India data breach Around 4.5 million passengers' data was leaked, including their contacts, their home addresses, their personal information. 2022, Loan Apps Data Breach. Around 3.5 lakh customers' data was leaked, including their SMS details, contacts and their documents. And I am pretty sure that you must have used one or the other of these apps. Or you may be thinking that we are safe, brother, we have not used any of these apps. But after this you will not believe at all what I am going to tell you. Last year in 2022, the data of nearly 487 million people was leaked and it was being sold online. Details of people from around 87 countries and that too from the app
7:17 which you must have opened before watching this video. Yes, our favourite app of all time WhatsApp. Skip the data leak, imagine if you prefer to search using OK Google or Hey Siri on your phone. So this is such an easy and efficient way to search for anything. But if your phone reacts after listening to these two lines, then it means that it is listening to you continuously 24 hours a day. Has it ever happened to you that you are thinking of buying something, suppose here I take a phone. And you are discussing about that phone with your friends. But only after that you will start seeing ads related to that phone. And you will start getting mails of discount coupons related to the same phone or product. Coupons & discounts are also game to make you buy urgently.
8:06 Due to which you would feel that it is just in tonight's sale, then it will leave. Will talk about the discount some other day, but I meant to say that some app or the other is listening to you continuously through your phone. Regarding this concern, software like iOS, Android keep bringing new features to bring transparency between users and apps. Year 2019 Apple Introduces New Privacy Features Where Apps Have To Ask User For Their Specific Access. For example, if the user wants to give access to his camera or storage, then only he can give it. The user himself will decide whether he wants to give access to camera or storage or not. Facebook after updating this feature, yes your dear Facebook lost 12 billion dollars within a few days.
8:52 And after that this feature went to Android phones as well. But there were still some devices running older software that could leak data. So always keep the software updated. After that in 2020 iOS launch iOS 14. Due to which an orange coloured dot will show in your phone's notification bar whenever your mic is in use. And from this you can find out whether you are using the mic or any of your apps. And similarly a green dot will show when your camera is in use. And it turns out, there are 46% of apps that can access your camera without you asking. There were 25% of apps that could listen to your call recordings. And there were 45% of such apps that could access your location. And after the introduction of this feature,
9:39 all these apps had to remove all these fishy tactics from their apps. In which your daily use most famous apps like Like, Facebook and Tik Tok were also included. After all this, all these features were also given in Android. And now you can check which app is taking permission of what by going to App Permissions in Settings. Or which app can access what. And from there you can turn it off or on. Earlier there was no transparency at all between the apps and users. Many fishy apps have also been removed from the Play Store and App Store. Like Rubbish Cleaner, App Lock Manager, Locket Master, In Well Fitness, Horoscope Daily and many more. So the conclusion is that your data is not safe anywhere online or offline. So that's why be alert, be careful and keep watching..
10:26 So there is only one way to avoid this, whenever you install an app, it will ask you in the beginning that you have to give access to it. Now suppose I installed Uber, I can give access to my GPS so that they can find my location. And I can give access to the camera so that I can scan the barcode. Now what does Uber have to do with my gallery or my contacts, then I will not give access to it. So you have to give access to every app in the same way. Delete unnecessary apps which you do not use. Turn off the apps whose notifications you do not need. And just like that, don't transfer your file to anyone, anywhere. You yourself have to avoid all these things. If I have saved even a little bit of your data from this information, then like this channel and subscribe to this video. And yes don't forget to visit our channel Lakshya Choudhary vlogs for Daily vlogs
11:14 till then bye :)
