Privacy Failure While Motorola Sells Refurbished Xoom Wi-Fi tablets

Motorola sold a batch of refurbished Xoom Wi-Fi tablets recently, but the news here is not that the sale happened, but the state of the tablets themselves.

In what may colloquially be called a critical reset failure, about 100 of 6,200 tablets were probably resold without completely deleting the data of the previous owners.

This is the clearest piece of evidence to support the idea that people should perform a factory data reset before returning a device they don't like, for whatever reason.

The tablets were sold by Woot.com between October and December, 2011.

We talked at length about this occurrence and the privacy concerns it raised here. Hopefully, the company and all other manufacturers will be more careful with returned products from now on, or at least as careful as they were supposed to be in the first place.