https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-moves-to-resolve-privacy-concerns-over-its-recall-feature-170318905.html
Microsoft is making changes to its Recall feature on Copilot+ PCs in an attempt to resolve privacy concerns. The tool will be opt-in, so it won’t screenshot your activity without permission.
This solves only the most recent of privacy concerns that were only discovered with it recently. The primary concern is the core 'feature' itself: Windows recording everything you do and look at.
People work with your personal data on a regular basis, you better hope not a single one of them have this 'feature' enabled.
It‘s like how the EU Commission is promising to keep connections secure while outlawing encryption. Utterly ridiculous.
If you don't turn it on it doesn't record anything.
People work with your personal data on a regular basis, you better hope not a single one of them have this 'feature' enabled.
Those sorts of businesses have policies on their computers, should be possible to disable it company-wide. If they're not doing that then they have bigger problems than just Recall.
It’s not companies that are the problem. It’s your friends, the type that always clicks on accept all and allow. Do you have any idea how many spam calls I get because someone allowed some proprietary app access to their contacts? And I have at least five friends who would enable recall without giving it a second thought.
Incorrect. If you dig through the settings and turn it off, then it doesn't record anything, but it's enabled by default on PCs that have an NPU.
Did you read the article this thread is about? The sub-headline is:
The tool will be opt-in, so Copilot+ PCs won’t screenshot your activity without permission.
So were many other things in the past.
I hate that people keep saying this shit.
'But the article said..' yes, the face eating leopards said there were not going to eat your face today.
See you next week.
The person I was responding to didn't say "I think they'll eventually make it opt-out again, at some point in the future, in my opinion." He gave a factual description of the current state of the feature. An incorrect one.
If you want to hate on face-eating leopards at least be accurate when describing them. Otherwise you become the boy that cried face-eating leopard.
They ate so many faces as of today, what are you talking about? Microsoft has a long history of doing this, I can't believe you can in any way defend them.
That is how they spin it now, but I saw the setup process for windows 11 on copilot+ laptops and it was opt-out originally. I'd imagine it's going to be one of those things where they ask you to enable it every couple of days.
Exactly. Making Edge my default browser is opt-in too, but that doesn't stop them from bugging me about it regularly or switching it any time they think they can.
I'm loving Linux Mint since I switched. It's nice to have an operating system that isn't trying to subvert my choices every day.
Edge is opt-out though. It's your default from the beginning until you change it by installing a different browser.
Making it opt-in is a much better way to offer this ridiculous "feature". But I wager there will be future shenanigans. MS is very sneaky and passive-aggressive about pushing sketchy unwanted shit on its customers.
"whoops, a bug turned it on for everyone. But it's okay, just manually opt-out again, haha. sorry. our bad"
Even if the controls were big and obvious, I wouldn't trust them. Microsoft's knowingly using dark patterns. It'll eventually justify using it to spy on those who didn't quite consent.
Too late. I deleted windows from every pc in my house today. Even my computer challenged wife is using linux now.
The problem is Microsoft continues to show their cards and where they are taking things. Thanks but no thanks.
Can we just stop calling it a feature? Nobody asked for this to be a core part of the OS except MS tech support.