Just because you get away with something in the moment, doesn't mean you've gotten away with it.

My daughter had a boy threaten her so she blocked him and deleted it well it became quite a big deal because police got involved wanted me to check her phone to see if she had a threat made on her life she said that she had deleted her text with him cuz he doesn't like him. I picked up her phone and in less than 15 seconds I had it retrieved and she's like how did you do that and I said well this one was pretty easy but anything that you ever send on a message email text message will never disappear. Text pictures and videos once shared always there. She did have a threat from him and that was turned over to the police he went to juvenile detention now he's out on monitored arrest and counseling.

It's true. It's very difficult to truly erase things from electronic devices and once things are online they're not in your control anymore.

The only way to be 100% sure that data on an electronic device can't be recovered is to destroy the device beyond all recognition and even that is harder than it sounds. Deletion of data is done by overwriting it. The number of overwrites increases the difficulty of retrieval. Basic deletion is easily retrievable. Essentially, unless people really know what they're doing then they should assume that the authorities will be able to recover their data.

I don't know if I got away with it, but my mother never said a thing until the day she died & my sister kept my secret until she died.

unaddressed problems don't go away. But in tech, nothing ever goes away if it's online. If it's hard drives, only if fried.

Of course when people try to use that to their own advantage, like they have clear videos and audio of a crime, the law often says, "Well, there ain't anything we can really do about it."

To make deleted cell phone data unrecoverable, you should use a data erasure tool that overwrites the data multiple times, or perform a factory reset followed by filling the device with junk data. Simply deleting files or doing a factory reset is not enough, as data can often be recovered

Crime shows are always talking about the suspect being a grievance collector.

Eyeballs are everywhere, in everything.. omnipresent..