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If one chats/mails with a person using Windows, despite using secure private protocols, every message will be stored by Microsoft's Windoze Recall. Either I'm missing something but this feature seems like the most grotesque breach in online privacy/security.

What are ways to avoid this except for using obfuscated text?

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[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] arscynic@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'm afraid this comment shows a severe underestimation of the gravity of this issue. Windows recall doesn't stop at borders even if it were illegal there.

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, it's not here yet. And I do use windows 11, as does my mom, my grandparents and other pc's I'm the one helping with. I don't recall any recalls :p

And if they do push it here, it's probably followed by a news headline "eu fined Microsoft 10 billion for gdpr violation" or something like that

[–] CHKMRK@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

EU fines take way longer then that, give it a couple years of data collection and if we're lucky they get fined

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago

Their warnings tend to be a bit quicker

[–] ReversalHatchery 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

who cares? try to prove anything

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago

Europe has decent privacy laws, that's how I avoid it