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Recall: Microsoft re-launches ‘privacy nightmare’ AI screenshot tool (www.bbc.com)
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Microsoft says it has “listened to feedback” following a privacy row over a new tool which takes regular screenshots of users’ activity.

It was labelled a potential “privacy nightmare” by critics when it was unveiled in May 2024 - prompting the tech giant to postpone its release. It now plans to relaunch the artificial intelligence (AI) powered tool in November on its new CoPilot+ computers.

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When it initially announced the tool at its developer conference in May, Microsoft said it used AI "to make it possible to access virtually anything you have ever seen on your PC", and likened it to having photographic memory. It said Recall could search through a users' past activity, including their files, photos, emails and browsing history.

[...]

But critics quickly raised concerns, given the quantity of sensitive data the system would harvest, with one expert labelling it a potential “privacy nightmare."

[...]

[Pavan Davuluri, Microsoft's corporate vice president of Windows and devices says] that "Windows offers tools to help you control your privacy and customise what gets saved for you to find later".

However a technical blog about it states that “diagnostic data” from the tool may be shared with the firm depending on individual privacy settings.

[Microsoft says in a blog post that users can remove Recall entirely by using the optional features settings in Windows.]

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Sadly, that's the distro I had when I did my dual boot last summer. My Lenovo just isn't compatible with it.

[–] Vodulas@beehaw.org 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Mint has not worked well with my Nvidia card either. Pop_OS is doing great, though. They have an Nvidia specific install with some optimization for Nvidia cards.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

That's good to know. Is it user-friendly?

[–] iLove@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Popos was the one I tried last, out of curiosity.It ran smoothly at first. Then all of a sudden logging in to my user took 3 minutes. Turned out it was some custom popos syncing code that blocked the login process. I'm now running Ubuntu again 🥴

[–] Vodulas@beehaw.org 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

How long before that happened? I've been running it for several months and have had no issues

[–] iLove@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago

Just a few months 😔 Perhaps it's is just me who's unlucky.

[–] Vodulas@beehaw.org 1 points 5 days ago

Very. I have had to use the terminal for a couple things (VPN and some Switch modding), but 99% of the time it is unnecessary.

[–] Negligent_Embassy@links.hackliberty.org 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Dualboot is pretty ass and breaks all the time. I strongly suspect that was part of your issue

I am baffled to read you had to troubleshoot your linux installation every day, what kind of distro were you using?

Sorry you didn't have a good time.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Literally just Mint.

And yeah, I kind of just assumed dual-boot was a big part of the issue. I'm planning to repurpose my old PC to be a non-gaming Linux PC for everything but gaming when I upgrade later this year. Will be perfect for me to have a system for gaming only and one I can use for everything-but to protect my privacy.

[–] Negligent_Embassy@links.hackliberty.org 1 points 4 days ago

Yeah, that's really the most straightforward solution unfortunately.

In case you're not already familiar look into sunshine/moonlight for quick access to the windows machine