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Microsoft Will Switch Off Recall by Default After Security Backlash
After weeks of withering security and privacy criticisms, Microsoft has vastly scaled back Recall, its ambitions for its AI-enabled silent recording feature.
“We are updating the set-up experience of Copilot+ PCs to give people a clearer choice to opt-in to saving snapshots using Recall,” reads a blog post from Pavan Davuluri Microsoft's Corporate Vice President, Windows + Devices. The changes come amidst a mounting barrage of criticism from the security and privacy community, which has described Recall—which silently stores a screenshot of the user's activity every 5 seconds as fodder for AI analysis—as a gift to hackers: essentially unrequested, pre-installed spyware built into new Windows computers. By all appearances, Microsoft's rollout of Recall—even after today's announcement—displays the opposite approach, and one that seems more in line with business as usual in Redmond: Announce a feature, get pummeled for its glaring security failures, then belatedly scramble to control the damage.
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