Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency

Re:Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency by altruios on Thursday October 10, 2024 @07:03PM (#41804456)

Well: it's the generalization that a large corporation is communicating with an agency as a whole entity - thousands of employees aware, top to bottom - as opposed to just 1 or 2 people at the top receiving secret orders.

It is strange because that's exactly the opposite of how a corporation operates. If every employee (or even too many) employees are aware of the decision making process, that process stalls out.

The default view should be: the person at the top is being the one contacted, and the employees are not in the know.

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Re:Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency by hypeatei on Thursday October 10, 2024 @08:14PM (#41804880)

My point was that there isn't a secret scheme here where federal agents are pulling the strings at the top. They literally just ask private companies for data either through court orders or side channels and they'll get it eventually.

All out in the public view (essentially)

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Re:Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency by mistermann on Thursday October 10, 2024 @09:11PM (#41805174)

I think the disagreement is over whether the decision to ship the product was influenced. It is not hard to have a perfectly acceptable business reason, but also have secondary motive(s), and not many people need to be involved.

Plus it is not necessarily knowable.

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