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[-] [email protected] 86 points 1 year ago

If you save it on your computer instead of on their servers, how could they possibly be expected to analyze your data? Come on now, be reasonable!

[-] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah some people are too inconsiderate of shareholders.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's why they created recent controversy with ai analysing your whole data, another reason to switch to Linux

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

God now its not only word "windows" summoning the linux bros but the words "AI" as well?

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

I think it's pretty fair considering the implications of Recall

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Tbf that analyzing was happening on-device... But yeah

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But analyzed data still get sent to them, so yeah

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Maybe I'm out of the loop, but afaik they always said that none of the data would ever leave the device.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Check privacy settings, they sent usage data before, what stopping them now

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's a massive difference between what "usage data" refers to in this context and the kind of data stored and analyzed by Recall locally.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

That's the part that makes everybody nervous though. Everything from the global dragnet surveillance network to the marketing company behind your grocery store app is most interested in "metadata."

Companies like Microsoft will loudly say they don't want your cat pictures and memes and college papers, they're not tying your usage to an explicit file with your name and favorite pasta varieties...

...BUT that forced transmission of "anonymous user data", could potentially be super effective in identifying and manipulating you. With enough of it, you can easily put together a profile of an individual.

Heck, for a while, TOR would advise against resizing your brower window because the window size in pixels could potentially help fingerprint you on the web. How nuts is that?!

Most people actually worried about a spook digging through "\videos\Homework\" are indeed paranoid.

But there's been a lot of research at what can be done even if you're just "userID 1284hdkfuw724bfiueb"

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Sure but it still requires trusting them when they pinky promise they won't send any recall data. Fuck them tbh. It just makes me feel even more right about my decision to switch to Linux years ago.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

how would they even monetize that? so basic

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Won't somebody please think of the starving shareholders.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

exactly! do people expect windows to scan every local file too??!

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure it does that already, at least with defender

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Also, the explorer indexer at the very least takes note of what files it has stored.

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