Like, flat-out.

This 'feature' means that someone in an abusive relationship now has a canonized part of the OS monitoring their activities that can be then invoked and studied by the abuser.

Ain't no amount of -group policy- bullshit gonna fix this,

because Microsoft -doesn't allow- the granularity of administration required to defuse this for non-corporate users.

@bluknight

I'm genuinely curious to hear from corp lawyers, tbh. I have an -idea- about what they'd say, but I would genuinely value that point of view for this.

@munin Yeah, I don't have any that deal in corporate law to refer to, unfortunately.

But given the corp infosuck policy training I have to go through every year, I'm pretty certain my people would be screaming holy hell about discovery. Hell, I'm surprised they haven't disabled the Spotlight feature on my Mac, or whatever the Windows equivalent is.

@bluknight

Oh hells, I hadn't even gotten to considering the 'discovery' threat surface to this. Yowza, that's gonna be spicy as fuck.

@munin Ya think, DiNozzo? 🤣

Discovery was the third thing that came to mind, after "advertising" and "AI training for *redacted* purposes".

@bluknight

In fairness, my situation's a lot more compliance and malware research flavored, and the DV implications have me -extremely- shook given some past context.

But that's what friends are for, to give different points of view.

@munin Like you not thinking discovery, I hadn't thought of DV implications. Sweet Tester.

Maybe I should take every computing device newer than my 40-year-old pocket calculator out into the driveway and set it on fire now.

Just to be on the safe side.

@bluknight

Problem is, can't really participate in society -without- modern information processing devices - try getting your tax info from the IRS, for example.

@munin Dude, we both hang in the same circles of people.

Remind me again how participating in society any more is a good idea? 🤣

@bluknight

To be fair, I did opt out of the normative social structure a while back with the whole 'trans' thing.

Hanging out with the queer folks is a lot more chill.

@munin Not the point I was making, but you're not necessarily wrong.

Unfortunately, I'm not certain I fit in either circle well, or at all any more.

@bluknight

lol, I mean, hell, I more or less vanished from -everywhere- for a couple years while I was reworking my head around this whole "wait I'm a -girl-?!" thing. Been slowly rebuilding things since and....the world changed a lot.

@munin The world didn't change as much as your perception of it did.

My perception has changed a lot, too. Maybe for different reasons.

@bluknight

O what a brave new world that has such people in't!

@bluknight

the usual retort is " 'tis new to thee " ;-)