Microsoft taking photos of your screen?

[stevensfo]

I can't make head nor tail of this. Anyone know what it means? Surely not that everything you look at goes back to Microsoft?

Though a good way to cure millions of their constipation!

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/microsoft-ai- ... 41174.html

A flagship feature coming to Microsoft’s new artificial intelligence-powered Copilot+ PCs has sparked privacy concerns – with an AI assistant that constantly takes screenshots of what people are doing.

The idea of the ‘recall’ feature is that it works like a super-powered browsing history for the whole device, allowing users to search and retrieve info on anything from one place. The recall feature tracks every action performed on the laptop from voice chats to web browsing, and creates a detailed history stored on the device. Users can then easily search this history to find what they were working on.

But the recall service has sparked privacy fears, with Elon Musk comparing it to the dystopian sci-fi series Black Mirror and the UK’s Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) vowing to investigate the feature.

Steve

[Gerry557]

That's like big and small brother watching you.

Here is your screen shots of your bank account, your investment PF and that BDSM site you keep visiting.

I thought it was bad enough with related adverts popping up. At least it gave me a heads up of what she was spending.

Hopefully it's not turned on by default and totally switch offable.

[Urbandreamer]

Hopefully it's not turned on by default and totally switch offable.

Well historically Microsoft have changed those defaults, and reset your choices on a update.
Still possibly they won't behave the way that they historically did!

Here is Brodie Robertson talking about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aqo8g3Hx4rA
Though everyone seems to be commenting and pointing out the same issues.

FWIW, this was posted from a Linux laptop.