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New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC

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  • Remember when this was considered the behavior of malware?

    Pepperidge Farm remembers.

    • Well the malware authors of yore could have gotten away with it, so long as they attached their malware to an even slightly useful program, added an EULA that was 40 pages long and on one of those pages mentioned the malware and had no way to use the software without agreement.

  • Everyone knows Microsoft is going to wait a bit for the seeds to sprout and harvest all that data.

  • This is the best summary I could come up with:


    At a Build conference event on Monday, Microsoft revealed a new AI-powered feature called "Recall" for Copilot+ PCs that will allow Windows 11 users to search and retrieve their past activities on their PC.

    To make it work, Recall records everything users do on their PC, including activities in apps, communications in live meetings, and websites visited for research.

    By performing a Recall action, users can access a snapshot from a specific time period, providing context for the event or moment they are searching for.

    For example, someone with access to your Windows account could potentially use Recall to see everything you've been doing recently on your PC, which might extend beyond the embarrassing implications of pornography viewing and actually threaten the lives of journalists or perceived enemies of the state.

    Despite the privacy concerns, Microsoft says that the Recall index remains local and private on-device, encrypted in a way that is linked to a particular user's account.

    To use Recall, users will need to purchase one of the new "Copilot Plus PCs" powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite chips, which include the necessary neural processing unit (NPU).


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