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Comment on Microsoft builds on Recall with Gaming Copilot — fails basic privacy tests

Could you expand a bit, I understand that their systems are compromised, but how does that provide information to them about you if you play a game together. Unless you are just referring to the information that a server host or your friend would know anyway.

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WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
automated screenshots when your username is visible, like player lists or above your character when in front of a compormised player

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- Attacker94@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  If that is what was meant, this is nothing new, server hosts have had this information and more for ages, and your gamertag is by no means priveledged information. I am having trouble trying to figure out how this change affects my willingness to play on cross play servers, as others have pointed out however I would be wary of compromised devices with privelidged data like banks or HR which I realistically have no way to protect myself from.
  
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  - ISOmorph@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Having this info because of legitimate needs to provide a service and a third party processing it with AI without explicit consent for their benefit is a huge difference.
    
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    Attacker94@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I fail to see how this ai isn’t a legitimate service, sure me and a lot of other people don’t want it, but there is an actual use case for it. It is very obvious to most of us here that it is a data collection scheme, but the data that a game server has on you should be unimportant, if it isn’t that is a failing on you for either playing such an invasive game or a failing on the game developer for making such information easily obtainable, either way this is not an issue for gamers who restrict the private information they share.
    
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ISOmorph@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Of course I am referring to info my teammates would know too. Are you inferring that it’s fine that big corporations are profiling you based on what you’re chatting with your friends about?

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- Attacker94@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I’m not saying I’m OK with it, but I am saying that this data collection on game servers can be negated by not sharing information over in game chat. The rule I follow is that game chat is for talking about specifically the game or a discussing what platform we should communicate on instead; the unfortunate thing is that this ai would potentially compromise other services like your preferred messaging app. All in all, there doesn’t appear to be any reason to stop using cross play servers from a data privacy perspective.
  
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