[throwaway22032]

The thing I find bizarre about all of this is that 99.99% of the data people think is super important would only be interesting to a few very specific parties.

If you format a hard drive, and sell it on eBay through a generic username, then the person who buys that is not going to do some sort of FBI style forensics on the disk.

It would be like going through every single bin on every high street on the off chance that you happen across some celebrities' bank statements.

[crazygringo]

You don't need FBI style forensics, you just plug in a drive and there are the files, if the drive hasn't been erased.

Are you really OK with things like your bank account information or health records information or your e-mail history showing up on some rando's hard drive they bought from eBay, because it originally came from a cloud provider?