Nov 23, 2024 at 10:32 PM Microsoft has finally launched its AI Recall feature in preview for Copilot Plus PC users
Microsoft has finally launched its controversial Recall AI feature in preview, initially available only to Copilot Plus PC users in the Windows Insiders Dev Channel, with Intel and AMD support coming later. Recall captures screenshots of user activity, enabling users to retrace their steps or find previous work through natural language searches. It includes a scrollable timeline to view apps or websites accessed on specific dates, with AI matching text and visual elements from the snapshots to help retrieve tasks or information.
Initially planned for a June release, Recall was delayed due to security concerns, which prompted Microsoft to enhance its security measures by making the feature optional, fully removable, and requiring user opt-in. Users can manage saved snapshots by excluding specific apps or websites and deleting stored data. Recall is also designed to detect and exclude sensitive information like credit card numbers and passwords, with all snapshots stored locally on the user's PC, encrypted, and inaccessible to Microsoft or third parties, ensuring they are not used for AI model training.
Recall also requires Windows Hello, BitLocker, and Secure Boot to ensure a secure environment. Currently, it allows interactions with text or images in snapshots, supporting AI-powered actions like copying text or saving images, and future updates will introduce more advanced features, such as using Bing for visual searches directly from YouTube videos. If you're a Copilot Plus PC user and want to try Recall, you can do so from here.
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Until they make it fully open source and experts review it, I don't trust it. Microsoft's history of disrespecting its users and abusing information gathering is too deep and too long. Almost everything they do is with the intent of forcing people to use their tools and lock them in, and exploit their information, like the Edge browser, Bing search, constantly changing user settings without their consent, etc.
To be honest, they kept their promise to ensure the security is, based on Microsoft's standards, good enough. It's because it's not some basic AI filter added in Paint but a whole functionality that used to be the main selling point of theses Copilot PCs, that are not fresh news no more. So Recall is no more the revolution that Microsoft wanted to push to all user but a security fiasco that still need solid arguments to be enabled. And if not enough users activate it, both Recall and Copilot PCs will join in the massive pool of Microsoft failures. The real question is not how much time the first hack will be found to access all the data, that will be promptly fixed, but if Microsoft will decide it'll be mandatory for every user in just a year, when they'll be focused solely on Windows 11.
It was already found like 6 months before official launch with a script called TotalRecall
Reply written Nov 27, 2024
Guess who put 5 stars out of 5 on the Recall review page? I'll go first: FBI, CIA, NSA, DGSI (the french one), KGB/FSB... Recall is pretty much a spy agent disguised as your next memory...