Elon Musk urges millions to switch-off controversial Windows 11 feature that takes screenshots on your PC

gbnews.com ^ | May 25, 2024 | Aaron Brown

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Tesla CEO compared incoming Recall feature to an episode of Black Mirror

• New Recall feature will be coming to Copilot+ PCs from June
• It takes screenshots of everything you do on-screen
• Snapshots are analysed by AI on-device so they can be searched
• Elon Musk has announced plans to disable the feature on his PC
• Privacy campaigners have also flagged concerns
• UK privacy watchdog has launched an investigation into Recall

Elon Musk has criticised a controversial new AI feature coming to Windows 11 devices this summer. Known as Recall, it takes screenshots of everything on-screen so you can scroll back in time and resume work on anything from within the last month. The functionality will be exclusive to a range of new Copilot+ PCs.

Artificial Intelligence, powered by Microsoft's $10 billion partnership with OpenAI to licence its latest 'flirty' ChatGPT model, will analyse text and pictures in the screenshots — so you can search for phrases, people, animals, and landmarks to find what you're looking for, without knowing the name of a document or webpage.

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[MeanWestTexan]

I’ve repeatedly declined the windows 11 update for this and many other reasons.

[wally_bert]

I just bought a new Mac and have some Linux distros on spare laptops I use off and on.

Three W11s around that will be phased out someday.

[BigFreakinToad]

Win 11 is nothing but a surveillance system for the government

[wally_bert]

Elon should buy Microsoft and make it a good product again.

If not him, someone should.

[Alas Babylon!]

The gubment knows everyone’s here IP addresses, and we are constantly tracked.

VPN addresses are tracked, the IP addresses VPN’s hand out are tracked, your ISP is tracked—every packet to your cable modem is tracked...

All this data is gathered, analyzed, deduplicated, and stored.

My bet is that the gubment has subroutines and programs running that even Microsoft or Apple companies don’t know about, and this applies to Linux and UNIX machines using TCP/IP because they can mask a sniffer as an TCP/IP protocol and or service/daemon.

Privacy died when any one of us connected online.

[ansel12]

From the link

“If you refuse to buy a new laptop, you’ll miss out on AI-powered upgrades in Windows 11, Microsoft confirms

Only Copilot+ PCs unlock next-generation AI features
AI-powered features like Recall and Cocreator coming to Windows 11
But you’ll need to own a “Copilot Plus PC” to receive the free upgrades
If your Windows 11 PC does not meet the criteria, you’ll miss out
Microsoft, Samsung, ASUS, Dell, and HP have built Copilot+ PCs
Preorders are available now, with the release date scheduled for June”

[T.B. Yoits]

Does anyone really believe that switching it off actually switches it off?

[Fledermaus]

And since it’s Windows I’m sure it’s very difficult to find it and turn off.

[MtnClimber]

Hey Deep State: FU!

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Android phones now provide ‘helpful’ phone tracking unless you saw the email they sent out and responded within 3 days. Now, those who did not opt out (and do I really believe you CAN opt out?) can be tracked, even with the phone off. As far as I know, that means the is still powered on - at least the radio- while the user is allowed to believe the phone is off.

Now...what other features are ‘on’ when we think they’re ‘off’? Microphone?
I think James O’Keefe notes we are all tracked by our phones.

[T.B. Yoits]

The automatic screenshots are to bypass encryption. It doesn't matter what you encrypt in the pipeline if the Windows 11 Spyware takes pictures of it before it's encrypted and stores those pre-encrypted images on NSA servers.

From what I've seen with weird hiccups when connecting to a remote computer, this is likely already happening with Windows 10.

[butlerweave]

I only use windows 11 to play few games everything else is on Linux

[MtnClimber]

The gubment knows everyone’s here IP addresses, and we are constantly tracked.

The gubmint marxists have names and they have addresses. Just sayin.

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In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled Elon Musk urges millions to switch-off controversial Windows 11 feature that takes screenshots on your PC , Fledermaus wrote:

And since it’s Windows I’m sure it’s very difficult to find it and turn off.

And even if it could be turned off, every Windows Update or other Windows ping would turn that feature 'on' to 'help you.'

[dagunk]

Deleted windows from wife’s machine about a month ago - They aggravated me one time too many. No more windows machines here.

Wife now on Linux Mint and happy with it.

I’m on other unix systems.

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In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled Elon Musk urges millions to switch-off controversial Windows 11 feature that takes screenshots on your PC , T.B. Yoits wrote:

The automatic screenshots are to bypass encryption. It doesn't matter what you encrypt in the pipeline if the Windows 11 Spyware takes pictures of it before it's encrypted and stores those pre-encrypted images on NSA servers.

From what I've seen with weird hiccups when connecting to a remote computer, this is likely already happening with Windows 10.

Agreed.

[Organic Panic]

Every damned week ihave to turn off that windows 11 upgrade they are trying to force o e.

[livius]

I know. When people here get hysterical about this...I always think, heck, they know everything about you anyway. Probably every single key stroke or dictated word, and they’ve known it since day one.

Just go for it and defend yourself and stop our government from being a threat to our lives.

[Rennes Templar]

Call me old fashioned, but any old sites I used I look for in history.
I save all my key work offline.