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Originally Posted by Speedy
A shop owner is under no responsibility to check whats on a phone when he sells it, if he had sold it to a minor it would be a different story. But as a rule most phone shops do a full reset of phones to make sure there is nothing on it.
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Actually they probably do have a legal responsibility to format the phone to remove any personal information that could be on it. I believe this is covered by the extended 1998 data protection act and several EU laws.
Not that these laws help at all, you cant exactly go down accy nick and get the rozzers to arrest them.