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Microsoft re-launches ‘privacy nightmare’ AI screenshot tool

It says it has listened to concerns about the tool, which continuously screenshots online activity.

The controversy over Recall had led the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK’s data watchdog, to “make enquiries” with the tech giant about the tool. When it initially announced the tool at its developer conference in May, Microsoft said it used AI "to make it possible to access virtually anything you have ever seen on your PC", and likened it to having photographic memory. But critics quickly raised concerns, given the quantity of sensitive data the system would harvest, with one expert labelling it a potential “privacy nightmare."

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