This is going to be one serious GDPR and security mess for Microsoft. Anyone with common sense should know, this being AI it will be used by Microsoft to train AI. Google does it even though the ethics are visible, they don't care. Just my ten cents about AI and privacy. Feedback is always welcomed!!
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/frustration-grows-over-googles-ai-overviews-feature-how-to-disable/
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-11-recall-ai-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/
I rest my case regarding security.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-arm-tiktag-attack-impacts-google-chrome-linux-systems/
As first impressions were, when MS initially released the "Recall" hum drum, its all about money. Domination of the PC market. Revenue above all else with security on the back burner. This, is a non-starter in the EU realm, where unlike here in the US, they take consumer protections and rights seriously. Doubling down MS is "delaying" not doing away with, Recall. Why? Its all about AI and our data to train it. DOJ has to get involved with this very obvious monopoly attempt by Microsoft. Having an NPU just to run the next generation Windows 12 or whatever it winds up being labeled is nonsense. Windows 11 came with those restrictions via TPM, throwing out CPU's like used bubble bum and has all but, been remains defunct in the revenue, security realms .
So then, Microsoft, partners with Qualcomm. In 2022, Arm appears to have filed a lawsuit against Qualcomm, putting a rift into the mix with an issue via a company called Nuvia which they acquired. Nuvia wants their cut of the profits since their license for the work on ARM chips, they say, was never revoked when they were acquired. At any rate, NONE, of these companies are focused on anything other than the lions share no matter how that is arrived at. US Department of Justice MUST, get involved. Consumers are tired of having to retire perfectly good working devices at the expense of Microsoft and other companies.
Truly, I hope this puts and end to the Microsoft fleecing, world wide!!! Conversely, I came up in IT in the days where we had to be smart, work and think out of the box each and every day. We retained our knowledge and walked around with it in our heads. Our work earned us TRUST. Customers didn't have to rely on "paid services" that were no better than the people trying to fleece them in the first place. Microsoft needs to revisit those days and stop using the general public as a testing platform. And at our expense.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/microsoft-is-in-trouble/
Microsoft is now saying Recall is an "opt-in" feature, with new privacy measures. Um...this is sort of like the "fine print" on most everything we do these days. Arbitration vice suing when a company doesn't bone up to its promises or follow laws and regulations. Microsoft WILL, collect data and WILL use it in training AI. They're not going all in on things AI just for them to do a 180 when they hear what they already know. People aren't as dumb as Microsoft believes they are. And, they can reopen Insiders for Windows 10 again all they want to bait and switch. I'm not falling for it.
https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-gives-in-makes-recall-an-opt-in-feature-and-introduces-new-privacy-measures/
Edited: More information about why my mistrust in Microsoft and its AI / NPU push is so vivid!!
https://www.neowin.net/news/the-ftc-has-reportedly-started-an-antitrust-probe-of-microsofts-deal-with-inflection-ai/
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Just another reason for me to ditch Windows and go Linux when Win10 goes EOL.
It turns out that Microsoft’s Recall Feature can be accessed without administrator privileges.
https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-windows-recall-privilege-escalation/
More!! Microsoft has lost customer trust just as its laid out in this article. Make zero mistake of things, Recall is about data gathering and training AI. It is now and will be going forward. AI enabled PC's are being pushed now, just the same as having NEW CPU requirements with the release of Windows 11. Microsoft has a financial interest in all that, their software on all those new shining computers.
Microsoft had better think about the almost 400 million perfectly good computers that are probably headed to the dump. I'm a betting person that those 400 million, whether mostly corporate devices or consumers are going to stay right where they are. Microsoft loses again. And moving devices off Windows altogether when Windows 10 gets dumped next year in 2025, over to a LINUX distro will be like magic to do. Easy as pie. Currently we have three devices running Windows 11. The very instant Recall is pushed onto even one of them, I will format ALL of them and replace the OS without hesitation.
However, for a tool like this to be feasible, trust between the user and the platform is required, a luxury Microsoft doesn't appear to have with its Windows user base right now. Recall operates by taking and storing captures of your screen every few seconds to build a database that the user can later search, with screenshots as visual aids. That database is stored locally on your device and never uploaded to the cloud.
Microsoft, on the other hand, has done a lot to degrade the Windows user experience over the last few years. Everything from obtrusive advertisements to full-screen popups, ignoring app defaults, forcing a Microsoft Account, and more have eroded the trust relationship between Windows users and Microsoft.
Here is a list of just some of the practices Microsoft has employed on Windows that users do not like:
https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/microsoft-has-lost-trust-with-its-users-windows-recall-is-the-last-straw
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More yadda yadda from Microsoft on this issue:
https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-shares-more-info-about-privacy-controls-in-the-new-recall-feature-in-windows-11/
Also discussed here by Lawrence Abrams:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsofts-new-windows-11-recall-is-a-privacy-nightmare/
Edited: I cannot imagine why DOJ here in the USA doesn't file an anti-trust suit against Microsoft. The AI chip mindset also affects once again, current hardware being rendered "incompatible" and customers taking losses as were the case with the release of Windows 11. Something has to be done. Our data WILL be used to train AI and sold as it always is, make zero mistake of it. The other part I don't like begins with Windows 11 24H2 setting "Bitlocker drive encryption" by default for fresh installations. MS makes the software they will never own my devices. Hard times are ahead for Microsoft. They're too blinded with greed to see it coming.
SA