• It sounds like a great idea if you don’t think too long about it and none else has it yet. People like that don’t care about security or privacy concerns, as long as there is no law against it. Gotta earn money and the competition is fierce.

      And with “people” I mean executives just as much as engineers. Gotta earn money fast > being ethically aware of the implications of your work

      • I guess. I mean I immediately thought “I don’t want it capturing the porn I look at”, but maybe people really don’t think about privacy at all.

        I don’t really see how it makes money, since it’s bundled into windows (right?).

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    The only way it could possibly censor sensitive information is if it captured it in the first place and then determined that it was in a sensitive category and then censored it. Recall still has to capture it first to make that determination.

    I don’t understand why this isn’t everyone’s immediate thought after hearing Microsoft say their system would censor sensitive information. How could it possibly know what to censor without reading it first? Of course it’s going to invade your privacy, and then maybe they’ll selectively delete some of it when you ask them to.

    I wouldn’t be surprised if it all gets uploaded to cloud storage first, and then the “sensitive” stuff gets deleted from the local storage only.

    • This will go over extremely well. (for the CEOs) Management, ignoring all advice by the company’s IT people, will order them to enable Recall to “improve productivity” because one guy on LinkedIn said it made him one quattuordecillion percent more productive, IT will protest but will be inevitably shot down. Everything will be fine for a bit until some attacker inevitably gets into their systems and steals the Recall data from all their active workstations, leading to the compromise of almost every system they have.

      They offer their customers 1 free year of credit monitoring, promise to do better, never get punished by the law, rinse and repeat.

      Meanwhile, the CEO’s paycheck will never take a hit no matter what they do.

  • PSA - It’s probably gonna capture religious and political affiliations and weird pornography fetishes, too. Lol.

    As was mentioned, it’s just a bad idea.

    Edit: Here’s a particularly cynical prediction: Joe Consumer angry to learn that Recall backups were used to lower his credit score, and (incorrectly) deny his insurance claim.

  • The Windows 11 migration is mandatory, and there is no lube. They’ll gradually lower the tech requirements as it approaches to minimize people looking for alternatives.

    But make no mistake, Microsoft is asserting the leverage of its market share for full enshittification. Linux or Mac or eat the shit they’re giving you.

  • This is exactly why I’m, if possible, wanting to remove the WiFi card from my desktop. Hopefully no way for macrohard to force install win11 if I do that and use that one utility that disables automatic updates. Pretty sure if I did this early enough I’d hopefully be safe. Doesn’t make a huge difference when I’m hopefully gonna be updating my desktop before this all goes down, but probably still a good thing to do just in case (especially since I don’t have plans of getting rid of my current desktop).