After weeks of withering criticism and exposed security flaws, Microsoft has vastly scaled back its ambitions for Recall, its AI-enabled silent recording feature, and added new privacy features.
The very fact that they planned to implement it default on should be warning Windows users. As in: it’s a poorly thought feature that shows that Microsoft does not give a flying fuck about your privacy. This one caused a backslash and forced MS to rethink it, but how many went past the radar?
And it’s still a security nightmare. Now invaders don’t need to install spyware into your system, they just need to turn it on.
The very fact that they planned to implement it default on should be warning Windows users. As in: it’s a poorly thought feature that shows that Microsoft does not give a flying fuck about your privacy. This one caused a backslash and forced MS to rethink it, but how many went past the radar?
And it’s still a security nightmare. Now invaders don’t need to install spyware into your system, they just need to turn it on.
Totally agree with your take on it - this is a Security Incident waiting to happen.