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Microsoft Recall screenshots credit cards and Social Security numbers, even with the "sensitive information" filter enabled

Despite promising to filter personal data out, Recall still captures it.

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Tom's Hardware: Microsoft Recall screenshots credit cards and Social Security numbers, even with the "sensitive information" filter enabled

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Microsoft Recall screenshots credit cards and Social Security numbers, even with the "sensitive information" filter enabled

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The worse Microsoft makes Windows the more people start using Linux and the better Linux becomes.
- Yes, but I think we're talking about a very small percentage. The vast majority will just go "man, that sucks" and continue using it because they're too lazy to leave their comfort zone. Most users don't even change the default browser, which is arguably one of the easiest things to change.
  
  Yeah most people but it's a snowball effect once a few people you know start using Linux and they like it then you are a lot more likely to try it yourself. I'm an optimist and I believe Linux will start exponentially increasing in adoption (to a point) in the next few years.
  Also I think most people do change there default browser but they change it to Chrome ):

Behold, your "Deep State"
- Yeah this feature is shitty from a cyber security standpoint, but lmao @ you being pissed for the government being able to see numbers issued to you by the government themselves or heavily federally-regulated businesses

Apologies if this is explained in the article (sorry, as a Linux user I don't care enough about this story to actually read the article), but... how is a filter that avoid taking screenshots of sensitive info supposed to work? I mean, what kind of divination algorithm can detect something is sensitive without looking at it first?
- It might take a screenshot and keep in memory, and only save to disk after some image processing that detects if there is sensitive data.

Can't you just shut it off?
That recall function, whatever it's called, not the computer. Seems like most processes can be killed, not sure.
- Yeah, you can turn the PC off
  For now.
- As with most irritating Windows features, I assume there'll be an option to turn it off hidden in some obscure place, which will either not work, or it'll turn back on after a random amount of time.

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