Recently, a friend came to me, looking utterly distraught. “My phone is gone!” he declared. His sadness and worries were clearly visible and palpable. He lost a pricey smartphone and worse still, he had no backup of all his important data.
This was a phone that had all his entire business and personal life data including emails, photos, files, etc. I guess he was scared about the fact that anyone with good technical knowledge could find a way into his private world, either by exploring his financial information or using his social media profiles to scam others.
Losing a smartphone is hardly a pleasant experience, especially, if the device is one of those high-end ones that are pretty expensive. It becomes more painful if the data in a lost device are not properly backed up.
My friend obviously had a million reasons in this world to feel like a chicken with its head cut off! He had gone to the bank and placed the phone on a bench as he was filling out some forms.
A couple of minutes after leaving the banking hall, he remembered that he no longer had possession of his phone. He rushed back to the bank, but his frantic search for his phone device was not successful.
The members of staff at the bank also tried to help out by going through the CCTV footage of the bank for the period he was in the banking hall, but due to the heavy human traffic in the banking hall at that period, nothing conclusive was discovered.
There is no doubt that these days, our smartphones and tablets are very important and precious to us. This is because almost everything about us is stored on our phones or on the cloud somewhere through our phones and if such information should get into the wrong hands, we are capable of ending up in a sorry situation.
It is important to point out that when our smartphones get stolen, we do not only risk our privacy being invaded, we also risk the phone being used for illegal activities which can be traced back to us and whatever be the case, damage control can be very expensive.
My opinion is that if you lose a device, the very least activity you should aim for is to erase your data even if it’s not possible to retrieve it. The following steps will serve as a guide, if you smartphone is stolen or lost and we are — Finish Reading on the Punch
