News Microsoft Recall screenshots credit cards and Social Security numbers, even with the "sensitive information" filter enabled

[subspruce]

End users aren't the customers for this "Feature", government agencies are. This is just another way for Microsoft to get paid to spy for various governments.

I am not updating to 24H2. Either Microsoft needs to can Recall with Satya Nadella himself pledging an oath to never bring it back, or I'm not updating.

 

[USAFRet]

I am not updating to 24H2. Either Microsoft needs to can Recall with Satya Nadella himself pledging an oath to never bring it back, or I'm not updating.

You know this is currently only on a tiny subset of systems, right?
https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/laptops/best-copilot-pc

Not for every system. I just upgraded mine to 24H2, and no 'Recall' in sight.

(currently)

 

[Math Geek]

this is true. this is only on those laptop/tablets made specifically with AI compute thingies (probably not the technical term for them) built in if i recall right.

i assume eventually they'll migrate it over to using reg cpu or gpu cores to do the work so they can get it on every pc.

 

[greymaterial]

when the indian ceo give up asking for your credit card numbers, he snatches them out of your device

 

[RedBaron616]

A feature nobody wanted anyways, and were furious about it initially that it had to be canned for a period.

But Microsoft continues to have a terrible abusive relationship with its customers. It's what Microsoft wants, not what the customer wants.

This is what monopolies do. Customers don't matter because where are they going to go? I am willing to bet this program is at the request of the NSA, FBI, and similar agencies who illegally spy on Americans.

 

[RedBaron616]

This ^. "Abusive" is actually kind of astute thinking IMO as indeed many "need" or at least rely on Windows and M365 in various ways and appreciate the good aspects (esp. those not found in the Linux or Mac camps), yet MS will give and take as they please with minimal regard to how that changes the quality of life of affected customers.

The effort that went into developing Recall could have been used elsewhere for much better use -- opportunity cost.

It is what monopolies do. There is no true effective competition. Microsoft's Windows division should be busted up.

 

[Fox Tread33]

I've read all 31 comments that have been posted here so far . From what I gather, in the near term, a user will have to manually turn on Recall, and the things related to it. I assume that it is not on by default. It is obvious that big Tech sees their "customers" as theirs' to be used as they see fit. I avoid all "conveniences" offered by most businesses, because those conveniences often make it very easy for hackers/scammers to access my important information and data. I don't download any but the most basic apps. Which include an ad blocker, VLC, a PDF reader, a screen recorder, and most recently Gimp, (which I will rarely use). Further, I have a fairly diverse Tech ecosystem. I have a Chromebook, a Apple Mac Mini, Win10 machine ( to be converted to Linux at some point), and a Win11 machine that I need for the few Windows games I own. I think the more apps people put on their devices, is like knowing a lot of people who can harm you in some way, or be conduits for other people to harm you. In my opinion, people should be extremely careful as to the apps they put on their devices, avoid the "conveniences" of auto-pay (as much as possible), and syncing. Auto-pay is like giving someone your wallet, and syncing is like a row of dominos that will allow hackers to invade every account and device that are linked. The companies that encourage syncing are the same ones that get consistently hacked, and only offer their customers/users information on how to monitor their accounts through the use of Credit Bureaus.

 

[ezst036]

This is what monopolies do. Customers don't matter because where are they going to go? I am willing to bet this program is at the request of the NSA, FBI, and similar agencies who illegally spy on Americans.

You could stop being lazy and switch to Linux.

Customers "don't matter" because they choose to do more complaining and less action. For all the negative comments I make about Microsoft (and there are a LOT) I fully recognize that it's also the customer's fault as well for continuing to let it happen.