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Microsoft rolls out AI screenshot tool dubbed 'privacy nightmare'
BBC News ^ | 4/12/2025 | Imran Rahman-Jones

Posted on 04/14/2025 2:50:25 AM PDT by george76

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Any place that works with PII or worse FTI can’t have this anywhere on a work machine. It’s an instant security breach no matter where its data is stored.


21 posted on 04/14/2025 5:24:59 AM PDT by No.6
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MS....PRIVACY? BWAHAhahahahaha. So glad I jumped ship to Linux when Win11 ‘news’ starting coming out.

“Nice” way to kill that new/bigger NVMe drive too: More space taken & more data written/scrubbed than just standard user usage.


22 posted on 04/14/2025 5:42:39 AM PDT by i_robot73 (One could not count the number of *solutions*, if only govt followed\enforced the Constitution.)
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To: maddog55

But how is one to know clicking disable actually does that?

MICROSOFT on their own or at behest of government most likely has backdoor in their software.

Opaque tape over cameras can’t be rest by remote access.

Linux code that is scrutinized by many who could spot built-in Spyware should be safer.


23 posted on 04/14/2025 5:51:31 AM PDT by hoosierham (Freedom isnt free)
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Disable or delete drivers is easy to do. Stop updates, remove, edit or change registry entries.

There’s a lot of ways to do it.


24 posted on 04/14/2025 6:08:41 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: george76
Microsoft has already rammed its CoPilot down the throats of its paying customers (Outlook; 360/Office) with an intrusive, persistent presence. (There is no way to turn the damn thing off -- much less remove it completely -- despite a year of requests, then demands, for the company to provide a way to disable this unwanted "feature".

As with compelled Windows "updates", Microsoft's CoPilot is best described as an example of a company bullying their customers. My conclusion: "Eff 'em all ... and the AI horse they rode in on."

25 posted on 04/14/2025 6:17:42 AM PDT by glennaro (2025: The year of America's rebirth as a Great (and Free) Republic)
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Who used to call Microsoft Microsquash?


26 posted on 04/14/2025 6:29:19 AM PDT by antidemoncrat ( )
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Removal instructions are published here among other places:

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/how-to-disable-windows-recall

(Scroll to the end past the steps to only turn it off)


27 posted on 04/14/2025 6:51:39 AM PDT by No.6
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lol....please....I suppose it’s as requested by I.T. departments around the world. They’re run each snapshot against AI to recognize if you’re doing work stuff or not. It’s the ‘mouse & keyboard usage monitor’ on steroids.

I don’t see another reason.


28 posted on 04/14/2025 7:11:52 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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