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Author:  pcernie [ Tue Dec 09, 2014 9:07 pm ]
Post subject:  Rory McIlroy 'wiped important data from electronic devices'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-30398322

I've never liked that guy from the first time I saw him.
Author:  Spreadie [ Tue Dec 09, 2014 10:34 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Rory McIlroy 'wiped important data from electronic devices'
pcernie wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-30398322

I've never liked that guy from the first time I saw him.


That'll put paid to his Sports Personality chances - Smear campaign, I wonder?
Author:  pcernie [ Tue Dec 09, 2014 10:49 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Rory McIlroy 'wiped important data from electronic devices'
Spreadie wrote:
pcernie wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-30398322

I've never liked that guy from the first time I saw him.


That'll put paid to his Sports Personality chances - Smear campaign, I wonder?


He's actually had legal disputes involving all sorts of people, including Graeme McDowell.
Author:  big_D [ Wed Dec 10, 2014 5:05 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Rory McIlroy 'wiped important data from electronic devices'
Quote:
He said Rory McIlroy and three others close to him had also wiped their devices before passing them on to others or to charity.

So, standard practice, if you don't want a fine from the data protection police... If you sell or pass on a device, it has to be wiped. Where is the problem here?

Quote:
The senior counsel said Mr McIlroy had given no satisfactory explanation for the destruction of electronic data on his devices.

You what? Selling the device or giving it to charity is not a valid reason for erasing it, before it leaves your possession? What planet is the senior counsel coming from? And if the data is on the cloud, where is the problem?

And I must admit, I've never bothered taking SMS conversations from one device to another - or backing them up, before I've done a factory reset on a phone that has been causing problems. Email, contacts etc. are all in the cloud and transferred to the new device in a couple of minutes after it has been set up.

I can't comment on the rest of the case, as I don't know anything about sporting contracts and fees, but the claim that he wiped his devices before selling them being a bad thing is completely bogus. Oh, and I generally buy a new phone ever year or 18 months and I wipe the old one before I pass it on.

PCErnie wrote:
I've never liked that guy from the first time I saw him.

Until this article, I'd never heard of him.
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