Microsoft recently announced its AI-powered Copilot tool, coming to one of the new AI-powered laptops, and one of the features of the new AI implementation is a Windows 11 feature called Recall.
The new Windows feature provides the PC with a “photo memory,” which allows the user to return to a specific moment on the PC. Enabling the reminder will allow the user to perform their activities further on their PC, but for this feature to work, the user will have to opt for Windows, taking a screenshot of their desktop every few minutes.
With those screenshots, or as Microsoft calls them, snapshots, users will be able to access express moments where Copilot will provide more context in the form of identifying items in the screenshot, offering more shapes and more. Essentially, the tool is an Internet browsing history tool, even for your entire PC. Notably, Microsoft claims that any screenshots taken through AI will be stored on the PC and will not be available to the company. In addition, users can delete any screenshots.
The new feature raised serious privacy concerns, especially with the example of a malicious actor accessing a user’s PC, and Recall captured screenshots of that user’s banking information, passwords, and other sensitive data. Due to the potentially serious effect of this new article, the UK’s knowledge watchdog, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), has launched an investigation into Microsoft’s withdrawal.
“We expect organizations to be transparent with users about how their knowledge is used and to process non-public knowledge only to the extent necessary to achieve an express purpose,” the ICO wrote in a statement published Wednesday via its website. “The industry wants to consider knowledge coverage early on and rigorously assess and mitigate dangers to people’s rights and freedoms before bringing products to market. “
“We are making enquiries with Microsoft to understand the safeguards in place to protect user privacy,” the ICO statement concluded.
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