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New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC (arstechnica.com)

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

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"Recall screenshots are only linked to a specific user profile and Recall does not share them with other users, make them available for Microsoft to view, or use them for targeting advertisements. Screenshots are only available to the person whose profile was used to sign in to the device," Microsoft says.

It's conspicuous that this statement talks only about the raw screenshots, not any data derived from them (such as aggregated data, inferred data, or even just slightly reprocessed data). So Microsoft could do any minor reworking of the data and send it off to the cloud for their own purposes, while technically complying with the above.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Also, Microsoft could just be lying.

[–] mPony 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

now when have Microsoft ever lied before? I mean, other than the falsified evidence they submitted during their legal battle with the US Department of Justice.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Honestly, it's less about trusting Microsoft than the inherently flawed nature of a closed source operating system. There's no way a user can tell what's really going on behind the curtain. Maybe that was okay before, but I think the capabilities of AI have pushed us past that point.