Technicians from overnight repair shops access personal data and sometimes also copy data from their clients’ devices, researchers in Canada find. Devices belonging to females were more likely to be snooped on, and snooping tended to seek more sensitive data, including both sexually revealing and non-sexual pictures, documents, and financial information.
That’s why you remove the ssd/hdd yourself, or ask the tech to remove it for you beforehand. Even if it is totally encrypted. Also, learn repairing your devices, not worth it letting some random dude repair it anyway.
Sir your hard drive was missing but we replaced it and charged you accordingly.
That’s also impossible for most tablets and phones, which are probably holding more sensitive information on them than laptops these days…