A Boring Dystopia

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

submitted 8 months ago by Gemini24601 to c/aboringdystopia

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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] 34 points 8 months ago

The sad part is that this tool would be very useful if it wasn't being made and operated by ghouls. If it was fully self hosted and encrypted then this would be amazing.