It appears this will be an opt in feature.
Honestly it will probably help some people "hey where did I put that file?" but yes at a tremendous cost to privacy and security for those who use it.
I am also weary that it is opt in "for now".
Honestly it will probably help some people "hey where did I put that file?" but yes at a tremendous cost to privacy and security for those who use it.
I am also weary that it is opt in "for now".
Not only Microsoft's. I think Google were the first who introduced this crap. Now everybody is using it because users don't matter.
I think the UX of the future is: Please enter your card number and let us take what we want.
Keep in mind that anyone you email, chat, video conference, share files, or otherwise electronically interact with that has a Windows 11 machine with Recall will automatically opt you and your communications in as well, and you can not prevent it.
Not a bunch of independent, disorganized one-offs.
Consider this: your boss or another senior person at work has Recall and brings up information related to your employment, performance, and compensation. A friend has Recall, and reads some email from you in which you confide something sensitive. That customer support agent at the company you do frequent business with has Recall, because their employer wants to monitor their minute-to-minute activities, and brings up your account history.
Independently and uncoordinated, maybe not so bad. Together, tied back to Microsoft, it's easy to imagine constructing a profile of you from your interactions with these seemingly independent but in really collective third parties.