I can't believe I missed this one...

[WildWestDesigns]

Microsoft Recall screenshots credit cards and Social Security numbers, even with the "sensitive information" filter enabled

Despite promising to filter personal data out, Recall still captures it.

www.tomshardware.com

Not really surprised at all. Just glad that I don't have to worry about this. Right now, it looks like just the canary channel users have to worry about it, but eventually it will get there in stable. I personally don't think this should be a thing, even if this "bug" is squashed, who knows that bugs will replace it or how well it's even squashed, but that is just me.

 

[Graphic Extremes]

I said this was going to be bad when it was in beta testing

 

[WildWestDesigns]

I said this was going to be bad when it was in beta testing

To be honest, I don't see how this couldn't have been a cluster. This is just one of those "features" that shouldn't have existed at all. I do think Mac has something like this, but it's something that has to be installed by the user (which I still don't like the "feature" I don't have a problem if someone wants to inflict that upon themselves). This, to me, is more odious.

 

[pro-UP]

Each time there is an update, they reinstall copilot. I keep uninstalling it. Unless they are paying me, I would prefer not to be their test dummy. I always opt-out when I am able.

 

[Graphic Extremes]

That's why I do beta testing I get the info for different things.

Try this program, You can save the setting and have it reinstall the tweaks with one click.. I use it all the time.

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Use the portable version on a flash drive, save config file to the flash drive., and you just use it over and over

I honestly can't find any reason for this to exist except for spying on people.. Might have been put in for companies to spy on their employees to see what they are actually doing when working...

 

[WildWestDesigns]

Might have been put in for companies to spy on their employees to see what they are actually doing when working...

Teams 2.0 I reckon.

Each time there is an update, they reinstall copilot. I keep uninstalling it. Unless they are paying me, I would prefer not to be their test dummy. I always opt-out when I am able.

At some point, I don't think be able to uninstall it. From what I have been reading, Recall is like Edge (and since Recall depends on the copilot runtime...), it's linked throughout the system, so if do remove it, it's going to neuter other functionality that one may need. I would imagine that it would be something that would have to be done on an update by update basis. In my mind, Windows is becoming less and less a serious OS. It still has some things going for it, most of which, in my mind, have nothing to do with the system itself, but via 3rd parties.

 

[Graphic Extremes]

if you totally remove it, it breaks file explorer, but there are other file explorers that you can install to solve that problem.

 

[WildWestDesigns]

if you totally remove it, it breaks file explorer, but there are other file explorers that you can install to solve that problem.

That will change as it gets more entrenched. It happened with Windows for other things as well. The key thing thing is the user going to care about what gets borked when removing it. That will depend. It should be able to be removed without breaking anything.

For almost 2 decades I have been spoiled by an OS that is modular and lets me take out what I don't want (even as something as simple as a browser) and put what I do want in. What Windows has become, should not be a thing. At least things were somewhat better for users back in the early 9X days (I remember when MS had their own unix-like OS as well) with regard to this and user control. It was still there (especially with the browser), but it definitely hadn't reached to this level (and more so).