On LinkedIn someone in my network pointed out that, apart from the security and privacy disaster, the name Recall was a bad choice because of negative events like product recall.
this is one of the first things mentioned in the article
It would actually be a fantastic name if this were a real concern. Imagine, a well-known feature to mask any searches of a product recall. The only problem with this theory is that computer QA is so incredibly shit that the concept of a recall more or less doesn’t exist in the first place.
They should have named it “I Know What You Did Last Summer”. ;)
"Total Recall", aka "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale"
"Total Recall" in quotes makes me think you're trying to get your ass back to Mars and that you're trying to remember something because you had your memories wiped. It makes me think of nothing about a friendly service being offered forcefully upon you from your friendly and malevolent OS provider.
It's a story about false memories, and how that can change your identity. Regardless, it's the first thing I thought of when I heard about the feature.
The Philip K. Dick short story was a direct inspiration for the Paul Verhoeven movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, as it happens.