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Everything about privacy (the confidentiality pillar of security) -- but not restricted to infosec. Offline privacy is also relevant here.

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Remember Microsoft's Recall? The first implementation was never released and was met with strong criticism from privacy advocates and the infosec/security community. Guess what? Microsoft has doubled (mastodon.social)
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Remember Microsoft's Recall? The first implementation was never released and was met with strong criticism from privacy advocates and the infosec/security community. Guess what? Microsoft has doubled down, and its controversial Recall scraper is finally entering the public preview stage. If you care about privacy, please think twice before using this on your AI-enabled PCs (Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PCs) https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/11/22/previewing-recall-with-click-to-do-on-copilot-pcs-with-windows-insiders-in-the-dev-channel/

#privacy #infosec #security #windows11 #DoNotWant

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[–] Erklaerbaer@mastodon.social 1 points 2 months ago

@nixCraft@mastodon.social there will be no opt-out because it will be opt-in.
In companies, employers can only deactivate it for their employees but not activate it remotely.
There appears to be an option to delete it entirely.
And access to the stored data is only granted using Hello.