You have to opt in to Recall. You must have a “Copilot+ PC” which has an “NPU”. The snapshots are stored and processed locally.
Even if that's the design, it's a massive new attack surface for malware to try to exfiltrate.
I don't know how many times I've had to tell Windows that I don't want Edge to be my default browser and OneDrive should not open at login.
I hope to god that Valve takes the opportunity they have with Steam OS to give us a potential real alternative to Windows that focuses on gaming support. Cause that's literally the only reason I'm forced to continue using this Microsoft adware slop of an OS.
That must be doing wonders for the click rate. I can see the pre-promotion powerpoint slide now: "User engagement with Copilot is showing exponential growth"
I’d be pretty nervous about running Windows with this even able to be enabled.
No way the benefit:risk ratio makes the slightest sense in this case.
That will last for as long as it takes for the value of privacy and ownership erodes further and then it'll get switched back to on by default.
Imagine how useful it would be for software vendors (Microsoft included): "We have implemented new feature X, how are our users interacting with it? Let's ask their Recall AI about it".
This could essentially become telemetry on steroids.
In the start telemetry was seen as outrageously user-hostile spying, too. Look where we are now. We are all frogs, at least Microsoft is banking on it.