Would you like a timeline of everything you do on your PC?
The new “Recall” feature really does look good on paper, but the taking in mind that it catalogues almost everything you do on your computer, it could turn out to be a privacy nightmare. “logging things you do in apps, tracking communications in live meetings, remembering all websites you’ve visited for research, and more,” according to the Verge. What could this mean for future computing? It would certainly make digital forensics a whole lot easier……
The sad part is that this tool would be very useful if it wasn’t being made and operated by ghouls. If it was fully self hosted and encrypted then this would be amazing.
We know this what the real purpose of this is, it seems like they’re going to sell it as a necessary tool for people who are too stupid to use a basic search function? Per The Verge:
“Microsoft’s launching Recall for Copilot Plus PCs, a new Windows 11 tool that keeps track of everything you see and do on your computer and, in return, gives you the ability to search and retrieve anything you’ve done on the device.”
Oh, and apparently “Microsoft is promising users that the Recall index remains local and private on-device.” Something something Brooklyn Bridge…
I don’t know why people are surprised. They had a different version of this feature, “Activity History” in Windows 10. This is the same thing but they added “AI” to it.
The default allocation for Recall on a device with 256 GB will be 25 GB, which can store approximately 3 months of snapshots.
this comes out to about 2 GB / week. it’s honestly terrifying they could be generating 2 GB of activity data for just a weeks worth of computer use. it’s both a privacy nightmare and an optimization nightmare
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For the last couple of years privacy on windows has basically been:
Step 1: use strong passwords
Step 2: third party company leaks your data anyway
Yeah, uh, no thank you.
Is Microsoft this out of touch? Or are we doomed to be constantly monitored by our corporate overlords?
Seems we’re just still charging directly into 1984.
Every time I think Microsoft can’t get any worse they just find a way to innovate.
The sad part is that this tool would be very useful if it wasn’t being made and operated by ghouls. If it was fully self hosted and encrypted then this would be amazing.
We know this what the real purpose of this is, it seems like they’re going to sell it as a necessary tool for people who are too stupid to use a basic search function? Per The Verge:
“Microsoft’s launching Recall for Copilot Plus PCs, a new Windows 11 tool that keeps track of everything you see and do on your computer and, in return, gives you the ability to search and retrieve anything you’ve done on the device.”
Oh, and apparently “Microsoft is promising users that the Recall index remains local and private on-device.” Something something Brooklyn Bridge…
Okay, time to look into Unix distros.
Always has been 🔫🧑🚀
I don’t know why people are surprised. They had a different version of this feature, “Activity History” in Windows 10. This is the same thing but they added “AI” to it.
this comes out to about 2 GB / week. it’s honestly terrifying they could be generating 2 GB of activity data for just a weeks worth of computer use. it’s both a privacy nightmare and an optimization nightmare