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Windows 11's new AI feature makes it way too easy to steal everything you viewed or typed (www.neowin.net)

submitted 6 months ago by tigerjerusalem to c/technology

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Oh, you're saying that Recall is a privacy nightmare and a sweet target for malware? Surprised_pikachu.jpg

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[–] yemmly 85 points 6 months ago (2 children)

This has already been happening on the Web for quite some time. For example Microsoft Clarity records everything you do on those dodgy Web sites you visit. And they assign a universal identifier to you that can be correlated with the IDs Google and your device have already created and broadcast to profile you.

And you think “oh but I use x, y, and z to prevent tracking”. Guess what: They make your browser do nonsense tasks in the background to benchmark your hardware and then assign a UUID to you based on that.

The only thing that can help this situation is privacy legislation with real teeth.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is far far worse of a potential risk than a tracking identifier. Bank passwords, balances, social media pages, full text chat Windows, everything you ever view all OCRed and put in a neat searchable database for a hacker.

[–] yemmly -4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

My main point is that “observability” tools like Clarity are screen grabbing whole Web sessions and have been for some time.

[–] Blue_Morpho 33 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

But Clarity is an app a web developer adds to their own web site. So, yeah a website you visit sees everything you do on their website.

That's not new.

Screen capping everything on your PC at all times is new.

[–] yemmly -4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes the developer sees it, and also the data brokers they sell all their user data to see it, aggregate it, and corollate it. Not to mention whatever Microsoft does with it.

[–] yemmly 1 points 5 months ago

I would be interested in learning what people find objectionable about my comments, if anyone would care to share.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

nu. The people decide in this. We cant keep making new rules for the shit they come up with. I care. Thus i use firefox on linux with an open search. The people are stupid. Thats the problem. They want this comfort, they pay for it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Well currently the way legislation works, yea... They would get it turned somehow where user gets fucked even more.

It aint got to be like that. This comment is more about how pathetically failed the state is more than anything...

The state can't regulate the industry lol wtf

So much capture peasants are ready to go mad max style to survive their corpo owners.