@arstechnica LOL I cannot believe how dense they are. This will be a constant source of bad PR until they announce it’s gone for good and never coming back.
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This entire concept is horrifying to everyone, except law enforcement, abusive partners, and government.
Just wait until Microsoft releases Recall 365 for Business to get an AI view of your company! Which departments are struggling, get employees help proactively, which projects are likely to miss deadlines, etc.
@arstechnica I ran publicly available registry scripts to fully disable copilot and MS AI on my Windows machines. I don't want anything to do with it, it should be a choice
I switched to Linux and have not touched the backups I keep just in case for Windows, so they're in for a world of hurt, as I'm pretty vocal and WILL make all family computers Linux.
It's a drop in the bucket, but hope it's something.
@arstechnica well, I guess Recall won't be shipping then: shipping the feature via the Insiders is going to give leadership enough time to see how rarely used it is, and the fundamentals team to observe how much extra battery it chews up...
@arstechnica It also needs to be off by default with a group policy option to remove the functionality altogether, especially for any machine dealing with proprietary or personal information. Which, I guess, is probably most of them.
Alternately, I guess I'd be happy with keeping unencrypted data like that (it's encrypted only when the machine is off) if they made the system 100% infiltration-proof. Since that isn't possible, of course, I'm never going to be happy with that feature.
@arstechnica A tremendous amount of effort for Recall, something that nobody wants and nobody asked for, with about as much use case as letting the NSA film your home 24/7 in case you misplace your keys.