Gegen Microsoft wird wegen der neuen KI-Funktion „Recall“ ermittelt, die jede Ihrer PC-Bewegungen verfolgt

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1. I cannot wrap my brain around them announcing this “new feature”, and not expecting a massive angry backlash. Whoever is in charge of PR there sucks at their job.

   Or maybe they’re just not used to anyone ever pushing back on a bad idea.

2. But does it lull you into a state of compliance with a soft Scarlett Johansson voice?

3. >According to Microsoft, Recall will consistently take screenshots of users’ activity on their PC in the background while they go about their regular day on their computer. Using AI, the feature will scan through the text and visuals seen in each screen capture and make a searchable index of this activity for users.
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   >While these screenshots will be stored locally on users’ own computer, Microsoft has since shared that sensitive data, including passwords, addresses, and health information, won’t be removed — and will be visible to anyone who has access to the files on the device.

   This is a privacy nightmare..

4. Haven’t gamed for years, which Linux Distro should I switch to?

   I enjoyed Fedora like 15 years ago?

5. This strikes me as a way for micromanagers to ‘review what the employee did all day’

   1. Record. 2. Create Summary/Flipbook. 3. Sell to management.

6. It’s not your IP, if it’s our IP.

7. So this basically a more sophisticated and onerous keylogger???

8. This is a no-go. Many of us use online banking, take medical appointments online from our computers. Government services are online in some countries. I file my taxes online. And dissemination of this data can have life altering consequences.

   I don’t care if “it’s offline”, or if it can be disabled. The ability itself is concerning, and potentially dangerous. It’s only a matter of time before it get exploited. And it’s only a matter of time before getting ads based on elements of our life we don’t want to share.

   And unless proven otherwise, it’s a black box. We don’t know how it work, we don’t know how it communicate, and Microsoft don’t really have a great track record in term of security.

   Nope nope nope.

9. I declined the AI update on my laptop and Microsoft installed it anyway. Time to stop using their OS and software.

10. I will incinerate my Windows PC to complete ash before I allow this gargantuan privacy nightmare to touch my computer.

11. Might finally be the “Year of Linux”, especially with how good Linux gaming is these days thanks to Proton and Steam.

12. Just call all surveillance “AI” and no one will object anymore. lol.

13. What’s their problem? Why upset so many like this??

14. This is a genius move, can’t get spyware if the OS comes preloaded with it /s 

15. Just another reason not to use windows.

16. Who asked for all this AI stuff? I could not care less about AI and any time I see it I I immediately avoid that product. Downloaded linux for the first time the other day.

17. So it’s a Corpo keylogger?

18. This is a step one on the path to an AI-dominated machine.

    First comes the contextual recognition (screen recording), then comes the model training via that real user data, then we get some very effective automation through windows update

19. This isn’t bad because of the consumers, this is bad because windows gets used in hospitals, power plants, police stations, etc. 

20. Oh please store all my personal datas that I retrieved from government pages as plain text files. I can’t think of any better way to keep extremely private and sensitive datas other that that!

21. Time to switch to Linux

22. Come on NVIDIA. drop the fucking stable drivers for linux now..

23. Is this a keylogger by a different name?

24. Microsoft execs need to go to prison over this. This is craziness.

25. The OS probably had the so call “Recall” feature on older OS that took hidden screenshots of our screens. The process was probably hidden. They probably have been doing this for a long time but decided to make it public and add this as a feature of the new OS. Probably have been doing this thing for years without people’s knowledge. Maybe in the TOS contracts, it says they can do this or that (does not mean TOS terms are legal).

26. This won’t fly in the EU.

    Windows copilot isn’t even available here (officially) because they can’t comply with the DMA.

    I feel sorry for those in the US where it just won’t get stopped.

    Imagine handing out these devices in a work environment, and having the screenshots being available to every system admin. They can easily snoop through your device without you even knowing, grabbing all sorts of personal information that they wouldn’t normally have access to, as these screenshots don’t block out personal data (which is a technology Microsoft HAS, so there’s no fucking reason for them not to block this stuff)….

    Just don’t buy these devices. Luckily there’s no sign of this coming to existing windows installations.

27. Hate this “call it AI to make it acceptable” phase!of tech that we are in right now

28. Their Windows 11 adoption levels are still horrific (which is likely a big reason for ending support on their “forever operating system” Windows 10).

29. If Microsoft does anything close to monitoring my PC use in such detail I will for real at least try to use a linux based distro on a partition for a while… Maybe a week or two…
    Perhaps SteamOS if my favorite games are proton compatible. 

30. The police will love this feature.

31. Its not the AI that will kill us, its the idiots telling the AI to do such stuff that will.

    Personally i cant wait till the EU court hangs those idiots by thier balls.

32. I work in cyber security. This is a fucking shit show.

33. Literally who asked for this? What kind of dumbfuck says, “Hey Microsoft, I need AI assistance to browse documents on my computer” lol

34. Don’t care if they say it’s only stored locally – I guarantee you that is bullshit. They will use this activity data to train the model even further, that’s just how this works. They state that the *screenshots* are stored locally, but what about those searchable indexes the AI generates?

    If they don’t provide the directory or allow users to view the screenshots, that’s an even more MASSIVE red flag.

35. Can governments please start responding to big tech’s massive hubris now? Please?

36. anyone want to take bets this is a stunt? announce something absurd, get a ton of backlash, walk it back to whatever they actually want that now seems reasonable in comparison but would still be untenable if announced on its own.