How in a world filled with a rainbow of search engines, you didn’t bother to use one of them before posting that. Even like a cursory hit on Wikipedia.
Recall’s release immediately caused controversy, with experts warning that the feature could be a “disaster” for security and privacy, particularly since there was initially no option for users to disable it. This backlash prompted Microsoft to postpone its rollout. Microsoft then changed the feature to opt-in and provided instructions for how to remove it.
Backlash against Recall was centered on both security and privacy. Upon its release, Recall was described as a “potential security nightmare”. The initial version of Recall saved all data to a plaintext database, making it easy for the data to be stolen.
In response, the privacy-focused messaging app Signal published a feature for Signal Desktop that includes a “Screen security” setting, blocking Recall from taking screenshots of Signal chats on Windows. The setting is enabled by default when using Signal Desktop on Windows 11. Brave and AdGuard added similar functionality in July 2025. Later versions of Recall added full database encryption.
Now you have to opt-in (in theory, according to Microsoft, who historically aren’t terribly trustworthy about such things).
When the feature was first created, and released to a group of end-users who have opted into the “insider program” to get new features earlier than most people, it wasn’t opt-in
How in a world filled with a rainbow of search engines, you didn’t bother to use one of them before posting that. Even like a cursory hit on Wikipedia.
Link with citations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Recall
They projected so hard I thought I was three days in at a French Film Festival
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Now you have to opt-in (in theory, according to Microsoft, who historically aren’t terribly trustworthy about such things).
When the feature was first created, and released to a group of end-users who have opted into the “insider program” to get new features earlier than most people, it wasn’t opt-in