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Microsoft Recall still storing credit card, social security numbers

Despite promising to filter personal data out, Recall still captures it.

We’ve also provided an option in Settings that we encourage you to enable that will anonymously share the apps and sites you prefer to be excluded from Recall to help us improve the product.” When Recall first appeared in Insider Builds last spring, researchers noticed that it wasn’t encrypting the screenshots it captured and was storing its database as plain text. The company responded to the negative press attention by pulling Recall from Insider builds and promising to bring it back only after some security upgrades.

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