Handling Precautions
• SD cards have a physical switch to prevent writing on the card so as to avoid the accidental erasure of the card’s content. To
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Disposal
When you delete data on an SD card, only the file allocation table is altered and stored data is not physically erased. Take the necessary precautions when you dispose of an SD card, for example by physically damaging it to prevent the leakage of private data.
If giving an SD card to another person, initialize it using the [Complete] initialization option (A40). Fill it up with unimportant recordings, and then initialize it again. This makes recovering the original recordings very difficult.