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Microsoft Recall Feature
Microsoft is adding its Recall feature to Win 11 on new AI-enabled PCs. Recall was supposed to be enabled by default to take screenshots every few seconds of everything you do, supposedly so you can revisit your history.
After lots of loud complaints, Microsoft has decided to make Recall an Opt-In feature, rather than Opt-Out.
So if you get a new PC and see an option for Recall, make sure it's disabled, unless you really, really want Microsoft (and who knows who else) to see screenshots of everything you do, and then do whatever they want with those screenshots and/or the info gleaned from them.
When are these companies going to stop invading our privacy?
<rhetorical question>
ky331
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June 10th, 2024 10:51
What bothers me more --- given that Recall is/was supposed to take screenshots every 5 seconds --- would be the impact doing so might have on one's productivity: how much one's PC might be slowed down, and how much disk space will be eaten away?? Perhaps these factors might be negligible, given a super-fast PC, and a sufficiently large drive (or limitations on how much disk space can be used by Recall, with presumably data being replaced therein on a FIFO basis).
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June 10th, 2024 16:46
Minimum sys requirements for Recall are listed here.
Read that MS link for more details...
And read this about the risks developers and test users are finding, despite Microsoft's claims about Recall's security.