Fi 🏳️⚧️Hey so,
This windows recall thing?
Enables domestic abuse.
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.
"Use Linux" is not an appropriate response.
People do not always have the agency to choose their operational environment and you cannot fix structural unsafety with individual choice.
This is not a jape nor a joke, and I am not willing to countenance this as an argument.
Do not perpetuate abusive situations by blaming a victim for the environment they are in.
xsk@munin @gsuberland Honestly believe that the reason you get so many „use X option“ answers is because people focus on the technical part of the recall discussion. Even MS themselves don’t get it…
There is no option or freedom of choice under an abusing relationship, any kind of it, even the thought of that makes you tremor.
On top of that, MS is completely tone deaf on even more, real issues with this „feature“ ( that noone asked for ). Sharing the computer in the same household that is struggling financially and has no knowledge of how to use User profiles, The very Common „let me remote connect to your PC dear lady so we can fix my wrongly sent money to you for MS customer support“ call scams, even TSA asking you to open the laptop in front of them and provide the password or else… EVERYTHING you have done in the past ( three months ? ) will be on the plate for people to take and use against you, and no, there is no such thing as global ethical values.
All of those are very common scenarios that noone in MS prioritises over ROI in AI and are indicative of how tech companies function, they are not there anymore to provide a tool to improve your life with, but act both as a (re)marketing device and a will enforcement one…
I wish i had an answer but i have none at this point, i feel depressed about how we, even now in 2024, seem to have such a low priority on our society needs compared to profit.