New “Recall” feature in Windows 11 is a privacy nightmare
New “Recall” feature in Windows 11 is a privacy nightmare
Would you like a timeline of everything you do on your PC?
The new “Recall” feature really does look good on paper, but the taking in mind that it catalogues almost everything you do on your computer, it could turn out to be a privacy nightmare. “logging things you do in apps, tracking communications in live meetings, remembering all websites you’ve visited for research, and more,” according to the Verge. What could this mean for future computing? It would certainly make digital forensics a whole lot easier…..
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The default allocation for Recall on a device with 256 GB will be 25 GB, which can store approximately 3 months of snapshots.
this comes out to about 2 GB / week. it’s honestly terrifying they could be generating 2 GB of activity data for just a weeks worth of computer use. it’s both a privacy nightmare and an optimization nightmare
Yeah, just for reference ... 2 weeks of 1920x1080 video at 60 fps is about 7 GB.
Snapshots, or recorded actions, should be possible with far less space than 2 GB.