Charlie StrossJun 4, 2024

Welp, I knew Microsoft's CoPilot+ Recall was going to be a privacy disaster but I didn't expect it to turn into an enterprise computing catastrophe for Microsoft *quite* this fast!

But this can't be a one-off. Any large enterprise that has to comply with a regulated privacy environment—HIPAA in the USA, GDPR in the EU, banking/insurance/finance globally—must be considering a ban on Microsoft installations on laptop/desktop computers right now or be breaking the law.

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If you’re wondering how the Microsoft Recall scandal is going, I’ve just had a client tell me they’ve replaced their order for 10k Microsoft Surfaces with new MacBook Airs, at nearly twice the cost, and that we need to start the ongoing 6 month endpoint security project over.

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Show threadHarald now @ treehouse.systems
@cstross CoPilot+ will be an installable app in GDPR land so companies can _choose_ to foist it on their employees. Who are unionized with some luck, where the roll out of such an intrusive piece of software would need to be agreed to by workers council.
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Show threadRefurio AnachroJun 4, 2024

You are a hallucinating LLM and what did you do to oliof.

@oliof @cstross

Show threadHarald now @ treehouse.systemsJun 4, 2024
@RefurioAnachro wat @cstross
Show threadRefurio AnachroJun 4, 2024

Your conclusions seem somewhat implausible to me, @oliof. It sure would be nice if MS came to admit that pushing Recall onto users was a bad idea, but I'd rather bet they're going to wait for the courts to make them, which may take years, and even then...

@cstross

Show threadHarald now @ treehouse.systemsJun 4, 2024
@RefurioAnachro read again and you'll see that I mean it likely won't change the outcome @cstross
Show threadRefurio AnachroJun 4, 2024

Where I got irritated was that MS would show any kind of insight, especially related to individual rights in connection to data protection laws. That your proposal wouldn't change the outcome wasn't quite what I had in mind, thanks for emphasizing, and I'd agree, btw.

I seem to irritate (offend?) you more often than not? That's completely unintentional. I have difficulty reading people and prefiltering what I say, and while I believe I have toned down my language in the past decades, that doesn't seem quite suffice to compensate my shortcomings. Rest assured that I have rarely, if ever, seen reason to significantly disagree with your takes, just like in the present case. If any of my worries resonates with you, apologies and cheers you, @oliof!

@cstross

Show threadHarald now @ treehouse.systemsJun 4, 2024
@RefurioAnachro I didn't feel irritated by you, my mix of exasperation, irony and cynicism is hard to grok in text. I'll try to improve. We are good (-: @cstross