Technology

60070 readers

3387 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

798

Microsoft’s controversial Windows Recall feature is coming back in October (www.ghacks.net)

submitted 4 months ago by lemmee_in@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

197 comments fedilink hide all child comments

If you thought that Microsoft was done with Recall after its catastrophic reveal as the main feature of Copilot+ PCs, you are mistaken.

Microsoft wants to bring it back this October 2024. Good news is that the company plans to introduce it in test builds of the Windows 11 operating system in October. In other words: do not expect the feature to hit stable Windows 11 PCs before 2025 at the earliest.

While Recall may have sounded great on paper and on work-related PCs, users and experts alike expressed concern. Users expressed fears that malware could steal Recall data to know exactly what they did in the past couple of months.

Others did not trust Microsoft to keep the data secure. We suggested to make Recall opt-in, instead of opt-out, to make sure that users knew what they were getting into when enabling it.

Microsoft pulled the Recall feature shortly after its announcement and published information about its future in June. There, Microsoft said that it would make Recall opt-in by default. It also wanted to improve security by enrolling in Windows Hello and other features.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Did they make hard commitments to 100% keep the data local and never use it to spy on you? What does their privacy policy say? Come on dude, we're talking about microsoft. You're more likely to receive millions from a nigerian prince than to get some privacy from them.

[–] csm10495@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

A Google search later: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy-and-control-over-your-recall-experience-d404f672-7647-41e5-886c-a3c59680af15

All local. Nothing sent. You can choose to not believe it, but it's deceptive to imply they don't say it's local.

If you don't believe them it's one thing but they said what they said.

[–] ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No internet or cloud connections are required or used to save and analyze snapshots. Your snapshots aren't sent to Microsoft. Recall AI processing occurs locally, and your snapshots are securely stored on your local device only.

That's better than I thought. For the moment.

[–] Gumus@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It only mentions the snapshot storage and processing. It's a perfect solution for them. The AI will crunch the data and report only it's findings to Microsoft for advertising purposes. They save on storage and electricity by offloading the data harvesting to your machine.

[–] ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

I see, they don't state anywhere that the results of the screenshot analysis are never transmitted to them.

[–] Bjornir@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

Well you don't know that, they're telling you that. First issue.

The second is that it can and will change in time.