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Microsoft’s climbdown over its creepy Recall feature shows its AI strategy is far from intelligent | The tech company’s new Windows machines can take constant screenshots of users’ every action – quelle surprise, it’s a privacy minefield
The tech company’s new Windows machines can take constant screenshots of users’ every action – quelle surprise, it’s a privacy minefield
On 20 May, Yusuf Mehdi, a cove who rejoices in the magnificent title of executive vice-president, consumer chief marketing officer of Microsoft, launched its Copilot+ PCs, a “new category” of Windows machines that are “designed for AI”. And Charlie Stross, the sci-fi author and tech critic, called it a privacy “shit-show for any organisation that handles medical records or has a duty of legal confidentiality; indeed, for any business that has to comply with GDPR [general data protection regulation]”. The company belatedly got into the cloud computing business and its general counsel, Brad Smith, took on the role of the only adult in the tech fraternity house, issuing ponderous think pieces about ethics, corporate responsibility and other worthy topics.
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