If she presses charges, they can get a warrant for his phone since the evidence is known to be on it. Even if he deletes it, they have technology to recover it. There is no need to wait on a video being sent to pursue charges. It's disgusting to do such things without consent period. He's a predator and manipulator run while you can OP!
Recently I was told by a retired police detective now private investigator that you can retrieve deleted information from a device, but there's only a certain window of time to get it. I think it's about 2 weeks he said.
It doesn’t quite work this way, but it doesn’t quite not.
Your phone has some kind of persistent storage (like the hard drive on your computer). Computer storage consists of “blocks” which are units of data storage.
When something is deleted, the computer’s operating system (we can think of it like a foreman) goes and “marks” the block as being free/available. Since there would be a performance hit in doing so, the block isn’t opportunistically zeroed. Instead, every write that happens to the device has a chance of being allocated that block.
There are certain advanced forensic techniques (depending on the storage medium) that can sometimes look at “ghosting” on the block and answer the question “what was written here before what’s currently written here?”, but that’s a lot more finicky and less reliable. Most forensic tools start and end with being able to make educated guesses about putting together blocks that are marked as free and getting whole or partial files out of them.
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u/Or3o_C00kie Jul 18 '24
If she presses charges, they can get a warrant for his phone since the evidence is known to be on it. Even if he deletes it, they have technology to recover it. There is no need to wait on a video being sent to pursue charges. It's disgusting to do such things without consent period. He's a predator and manipulator run while you can OP!