How? If authorities seize your computer, don’t you think the recall screenshots is the first they will look at?
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mitram@lemm.ee 3 weeks agoAlthough I dislike recall as much as anyone else, this is quite a bit worse.
From the article:
Then came the more unsettling features. The phone silently captured a screenshot every five minutes, storing the images in a hidden folder that users couldn’t access. According to the BBC, authorities could later review these images to monitor the user’s activity.
lemmylommy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Kabaka@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
For sure. But at least those images aren’t kept in a secret location where users can’t see or delete them. Even if Recall makes this harder, there’s a meaningful difference here.
That said, neither one is doing you any privacy favors…
tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Has everyone forgotten about the NSA and their absurdly massive data centers? At least a portion of the US population likely has substantial data from their tech in a database we can’t access.
mitram@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Sure, but at least from a technical POV those screenshots are accessible to the users, can be deleted/manipulated and the user is not forced to have the feature enabled
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t see how this is worse.
mitram@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Recall stores an image every few seconds. 5 minutes is indeed much worse. Think of all the content they’re missing!