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Wafaa Apr 27, 2025

Imagine your computer remembering everything you’ve ever done, every site, every document, every app. 👀
That’s Microsoft’s new “#recall feature in Windows 11: an #ai tool that constantly takes #screenshots and stores them locally, letting you search your #past activity like a #photographic #memory.
#microsoft promises strong encryption, user controls to exclude sensitive apps or sites, and says the data stays on your device, unless you choose to back it up. Do you think they "really" will?

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Tom_Huth Apr 27, 2025

@Wafaa It is not about what I think, it is about what they implement.
2 good articles. One from @GossiTheDog
https://doublepulsar.com/microsoft-recall-on-copilot-pc-testing-the-security-and-privacy-implications-ddb296093b6c
and this one from Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/in-depth-with-windows-11-recall-and-what-microsoft-has-and-hasnt-fixed/

Recall is better now, but still has some worrisome glitches. How about the possibility of screenshots showing your Citrix work environment session?
The question is, will I TRUST them? Simply like any other US Company – I simply do not!

Microsoft Recall on Copilot+ PC: testing the security and privacy implications

Last year, Microsoft announced Recall, a feature which screenshots your PC every few seconds, OCRs the screenshots and produces a searchable text database of everything you’ve ever viewed or written…

DoublePulsar

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Tom_Huth

@Wafaa @GossiTheDog Second thought. Why the heck should I use recall?
For me it looks like the typical US marketing thought, let us create a solution for a problem, oh wait, we need to create and craft the problem.
Even when I think, I don’t see how recall will help me.
I have a Surface 11 Pro Copilot+ PC and I like the local Live Caption.
The AI thing is for me the solution to stop paying wages for employees.
Have the capitalists ever thought about who will then be able to buy their goods?

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Wafaa Apr 27, 2025

@Tom_Huth @GossiTheDog spot on, I think they thought of that who is going to buy, shifting from small computers to huge data centres, and from small systems to massive robot factories. We are not the customers anymore. We are the materials, even our thoughts are material.