Is Microsoft Recall a privacy nightmare? 7 reasons you can stop worrying about it
Summary
Theres an entire class of frankly creepy software designed to monitor every move someone makes on a smartphone or computer, often saving surreptitious screenshots of activity for review by the person who installed the app (typically a parent or a jealous spouse). Those distinctions apparently dont matter to general-interest media sources like CNN or the BBC, where you might have read that Microsoft Recall is a "privacy nightmare." Unsurprisingly, Microsoft has enabled group policy and mobile device management settings that administrators can use to disable this feature completely. If that configuration is turned on for your managed device, all saved snapshots are deleted immediately, and you wont have the option to enable the feature going forward. The population that is most at risk includes journalists and activists who cross borders into hostile countries or who are targeted by police or security services.
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