The contents of your PC’s Recycle Bin or Mac’s Trash Can are only cleared out when you empty them. Kim Komando offers tips to permanently delete data.

How to Permanently Delete Images So That No One Can Find Them on Your Computer. Whether you're clearing space off of your hard drive or want to remove some embarrassing pictures from your recent ...

I recommend using the free program Eraser to permanently delete your data. Eraser writes over files with meaningless data, making the files unrecoverable.

Ideally, items deleted from your Junk folder should be permanently deleted when you instruct the email program to do so.

Formatting your hard drive before you sell it on Ebay is not enough to permanently erase the data on disk. The Geeks are Sexy blog (aren't they, thoug ...

Ideally, items deleted from your Junk folder should be permanently deleted when you instruct the email program to do so.