Interesting article in TG Daily yesterday that discusses technology that allows users to recover deleted photos – even those that have been cleared out of a recycling bin.
As the article notes, this has implications for individuals as well as legal and law enforcement officials:
This software serves not only the purpose of recovering photos which have accidentally been deleted by consumers, but also could aid law enforcement in the restoration of photos which have been purposefully deleted — for instance in child pornography cases, where forensic analysis by police officers could help gather information for cases.
The full article can be found here.