Recall to take screenshots every 2 seconds

[phenomlab]

This is such a bad idea in terms of privacy and and security that the ICO has already begun an investigation. And clearly for very good reason.

https://news.sky.com/story/microsoft-ai-feature-investigated-by-uk-watchdog-over-screenshots-13141171

Any nefarious actor with access to the target machine could easily gain access to these screenshots and use them to exploit a victim directly. This is literally like leaving the keys under the mat, and all your personal information in clear view ripe for picking.

This is nothing more than spyware in my view and should be stopped.

What’s your view?

[crazycells]

@phenomlab Microsoft is trying hard to be the next Facebook… the one everybody is hating more and more due to privacy concerns… They should realize that people do not like this much sudden invasion… (although we are usually ok with this being done slowly - I mean “boiling frog” apologue)…

what about the companies using Windows with copilot? would not it be equivalent to give away their secrets?

[phenomlab]

@crazycells said in CoPilot to take screenshots every 2 seconds:

what about the companies using Windows with copilot? would not it be equivalent to give away their secrets?

Yes, exactly. Whilst it’s generally bad for the consumer, it’s even worse for corporate environments and will likely instantly violate any sane and effective controls they have in place. Browser history is sufficient in most cases but taking screenshots of a user desktop is an absolute no from any perspective.

What is the user is handling their own (or worst, someone else’s) personally identifiable data at the time and a screenshot is taken of that.

This then raises obvious important questions

1. Where is it stored?
2. Who has access?
3. Is it encrypted?

These minimum three questions would apply to locally held or uploaded data. This is just waiting to be exploited and should be made illegal practice immediately. You wouldn’t want a keylogger on your system recording keystroke and talking screenshots, so why would you even consider allowing this?

[DownPW]

you talking about Recall ?

[phenomlab]

@DownPW Yes, exactly

[phenomlab]

Seems as though Microsoft has started making positive changes to recall.

Microsoft is making changes to a controversial feature announced for its new range of PCs powered by artificial intelligence after it was flagged as a potential “privacy nightmare”.

Source

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd11rje1mrro

[DownPW]

Good point to roll back