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

Recall remains a phenomenally bad idea. I don't understand why anyone would green light it.

Doesn't surprise me one iota. This is why I will be abandoning Windows next year and moving to Linux and doing the same for my parents.

well of course it does. There is no way for it to know what it is capturing. Best it can do is capture it, and maybe discard it if it manages to detect any sensitive info. Which won't work every time

The only way it could possibly censor sensitive information is if it captured it in the first place and then determined that it was in a sensitive category and then censored it. Recall still has to capture it first to make that determination.

I don't understand why this isn't everyone's immediate thought after hearing Microsoft say their system would censor sensitive information. How could it possibly know what to censor without reading it first? Of course it's going to invade your privacy, and then maybe they'll selectively delete some of it when you ask them to.

I wouldn't be surprised if it all gets uploaded to cloud storage first, and then the "sensitive" stuff gets deleted from the local storage only.

Im always astounded at how tech companies swing between 'for your convenience' and 'for your security/ privacy', and how often users just take them at their word, then wonder why the noose on the neck of their personal choices and freedoms keep getting tighter and tighter.

PSA - It's probably gonna capture religious and political affiliations and weird pornography fetishes, too. Lol.

As was mentioned, it's just a bad idea.

Edit: Here's a particularly cynical prediction: Joe Consumer angry to learn that Recall backups were used to lower his credit score, and (incorrectly) deny his insurance claim.

Lol it’s like the old screen-cap malware/viruses from the XP days, except M$ is doing it for “legit” reasons.

how in the hell do they think this is going to go over in It for corporate America with sensitive data on everyone's workstations?? what about the rest of the world ?

The Windows 11 migration is mandatory, and there is no lube. They’ll gradually lower the tech requirements as it approaches to minimize people looking for alternatives.

But make no mistake, Microsoft is asserting the leverage of its market share for full enshittification. Linux or Mac or eat the shit they’re giving you.

Oh look! Microsoft is doing the thing they assured us they wouldn't do! What a fucking shocker! What is it, the tenth time this year?

The new version of Recall is now opt-in rather than opt-out – I got prompted to enable Recall immediately after installing the Insider Build.

This seems to be the important bit, hopefully it stays opt in.

How does the filter know which information is sensitive...

Microsoft Recall is a bad idea with tremendously and insanely amateuristic and shit implementation

Surprised pikachu

What is the advantage that this is supposed to provide?

Just make a history tab that shows all the programs I've opened and when. I opened them.

This is exactly why I'm, if possible, wanting to remove the WiFi card from my desktop. Hopefully no way for macrohard to force install win11 if I do that and use that one utility that disables automatic updates. Pretty sure if I did this early enough I'd hopefully be safe. Doesn't make a huge difference when I'm hopefully gonna be updating my desktop before this all goes down, but probably still a good thing to do just in case (especially since I don't have plans of getting rid of my current desktop).

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