"...a would-be hacker would need to gain physical access to your device, unlock it and sign in before they could access saved screenshots."

I've got some news for Microsoft about how domestic abuse works.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwwqp6nx14o

Microsoft Copilot+ Recall feature 'privacy nightmare' - BBC News

The ICO wants to know the safeguards around Recall, which can take screengrabs of your screen every few seconds.

BBC News

@evacide

... as opposed to all the would-be hackers who have never thought to try to unlock a device and sign into it, or access data without proper credentials.

It's like Microsoft is just sort of taunting hackers to try and get it broken as quickly as possible for some reason. Is this feature being implemented because somebody lost a bet, or the NSA has compromat on Nadella, or what?

@wrosecrans This feature is being implemented because there were zero survivors of domestic abuse involved the high-level decision-making.

@evacide I absolutely believe you there. But I still struggle to understand why it got implemented. There are a zillion other obvious reasons it's a bad feature that one would notice even if they weren't sensitive to that specific issue.

This is gonna have screenshots of HIPAA protected data. Trade secrets. API keys. Passwords. HR department PII. GDPR protected stuff. On and on and on.

@wrosecrans @evacide I'm pretty sure it's getting implemented because some credulously hype-tracking investors went "hey, AI makes the line go up, that means you *must* put more of that in right now, no other option exists."
@pstewart @wrosecrans @evacide Yup. It's FOMO in its saddest, most harmful form...