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Microsoft moves to resolve privacy concerns over its Recall feature (www.engadget.com)

submitted 3 months ago by simplejack to c/technology

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[–] ichbinjasokreativ 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Incorrect. If you dig through the settings and turn it off, then it doesn't record anything, but it's enabled by default on PCs that have an NPU.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Did you read the article this thread is about? The sub-headline is:

The tool will be opt-in, so Copilot+ PCs won’t screenshot your activity without permission.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So were many other things in the past.

I hate that people keep saying this shit.

'But the article said..' yes, the face eating leopards said there were not going to eat your face today.

See you next week.

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

The person I was responding to didn't say "I think they'll eventually make it opt-out again, at some point in the future, in my opinion." He gave a factual description of the current state of the feature. An incorrect one.

If you want to hate on face-eating leopards at least be accurate when describing them. Otherwise you become the boy that cried face-eating leopard.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

They ate so many faces as of today, what are you talking about? Microsoft has a long history of doing this, I can't believe you can in any way defend them.

[–] ichbinjasokreativ 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That is how they spin it now, but I saw the setup process for windows 11 on copilot+ laptops and it was opt-out originally. I'd imagine it's going to be one of those things where they ask you to enable it every couple of days.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. Making Edge my default browser is opt-in too, but that doesn't stop them from bugging me about it regularly or switching it any time they think they can.

I'm loving Linux Mint since I switched. It's nice to have an operating system that isn't trying to subvert my choices every day.

[–] ichbinjasokreativ 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Edge is opt-out though. It's your default from the beginning until you change it by installing a different browser.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Good point. I always install Firefox immediately and change it.