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New “Recall” feature in Windows 11 is a privacy nightmare (www.theverge.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 51 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

it includes logging things you do in apps, tracking communications in live meetings, remembering all websites you’ve visited for research, and more.

Yeah, uh, no thank you.

Is Microsoft this out of touch? Or are we doomed to be constantly monitored by our corporate overlords?

Seems we're just still charging directly into 1984.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

It can be both. Until the mass public starts caring or it starts affecting big business I don't see things getting sensible any time soon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yes, those websites were totally for "research." Yep, totally.