Comment on Microsoft’s controversial Windows Recall feature is coming back in October
ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoDid they make hard commitments to 100% keep the data local and never use it to spy on you? What does their privacy policy say? Come on dude, we’re talking about microsoft. You’re more likely to receive millions from a nigerian prince than to get some privacy from them.
csm10495@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
A Google search later: …microsoft.com/…/privacy-and-control-over-your-re…
All local. Nothing sent. You can choose to not believe it, but it’s deceptive to imply they don’t say it’s local.
If you don’t believe them it’s one thing but they said what they said.
ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That’s better than I thought. For the moment.
Gumus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It only mentions the snapshot storage and processing. It’s a perfect solution for them. The AI will crunch the data and report only it’s findings to Microsoft for advertising purposes. They save on storage and electricity by offloading the data harvesting to your machine.
ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I see, they don’t state anywhere that the results of the screenshot analysis are never transmitted to them.
Bjornir@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Well you don’t know that, they’re telling you that. First issue.
The second is that it can and will change in time.