Microsoft AI Spying Scandal: Time to Rethink Privacy Standards

Re:Microsoft AI Spying Scandal: Time to Rethink Privacy Stan... by moontear on Thursday June 06, 2024 @01:22AM (#40593798)

No, this is not what the article nor this discussion is about. Windows Recall is completely local and hence actually is in line with the argument of the article that stuff was local way before they were in the cloud. Those screnshots Recall takes pose a whole different security and privacy problem: that someone (bad actor, your employer, your partner) may access these screenshots and gleam a lot of information about you they shouldn’t get. Recall is not about „Microsoft having way, way more data about you“. Other MS products, sure - Recall isn’t the point here.

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Re:Microsoft AI Spying Scandal: Time to Rethink Privacy Stan... by logicchains on Thursday June 06, 2024 @01:59AM (#40593991)

>Windows Recall is completely local

I'm pretty confident if the NSA or whatever asks MS for those screenshots, they've got a way of making them non-local. The EU is already pushing for mandatory local scanning for CSAM, do you think they wouldn't also extend this to Windows Recall snapshots once the technology is there?

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Re:Microsoft AI Spying Scandal: Time to Rethink Privacy Stan... by Maro on Thursday June 06, 2024 @02:22AM (#40594134)

I don't take Microsoft devices seriously, esp. PCs, except the Xbox they never last or gain widespread adoption..

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Re:Microsoft AI Spying Scandal: Time to Rethink Privacy Stan... by crawfishphase on Thursday June 06, 2024 @02:47AM (#40594302)

Microsoft Surface

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Re:Microsoft AI Spying Scandal: Time to Rethink Privacy Stan... by Maro on Thursday June 06, 2024 @03:51AM (#40594715)

I've never seen one irl.

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Re:Microsoft AI Spying Scandal: Time to Rethink Privacy Stan... by vundercind on Thursday June 06, 2024 @02:07PM (#40600514)

I’ve seen exactly one. Got one at a dev agency I worked at as a Windows test device.

This was like a 3rd or 4th generation one, I think. I was really excited to finally get my hands on one because they were supposed to be really good.

TL;DR it was mediocre-leaning-bad judged as a laptop, and a terrible tablet. I can’t figure out how they got anything but bad press for the things.

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Re:Microsoft AI Spying Scandal: Time to Rethink Privacy Stan... by crawfishphase on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @01:44PM (#40720302)

ms personal computing revenue was 13.9 billion usd in 2023

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Re:Microsoft AI Spying Scandal: Time to Rethink Privacy Stan... by dspillett on Thursday June 06, 2024 @05:15AM (#40595256)

> Windows Recall is completely local

Until it isn't, due to future changes or malicious 3rd party managing to make use of bad security decisions & bugs.

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