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[-] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 84 points 5 months ago

If you save it on your computer instead of on their servers, how could they possibly be expected to analyze your data? Come on now, be reasonable!

[-] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 42 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah some people are too inconsiderate of shareholders.

[-] bruhduh@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

That's why they created recent controversy with ai analysing your whole data, another reason to switch to Linux

[-] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 5 months ago

God now its not only word "windows" summoning the linux bros but the words "AI" as well?

[-] FlaminGoku@reddthat.com 15 points 5 months ago

I think it's pretty fair considering the implications of Recall

[-] efstajas@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Tbf that analyzing was happening on-device... But yeah

[-] bruhduh@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

But analyzed data still get sent to them, so yeah

[-] efstajas@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Maybe I'm out of the loop, but afaik they always said that none of the data would ever leave the device.

[-] bruhduh@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Check privacy settings, they sent usage data before, what stopping them now

[-] efstajas@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

There's a massive difference between what "usage data" refers to in this context and the kind of data stored and analyzed by Recall locally.

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 6 points 5 months ago

That's the part that makes everybody nervous though. Everything from the global dragnet surveillance network to the marketing company behind your grocery store app is most interested in "metadata."

Companies like Microsoft will loudly say they don't want your cat pictures and memes and college papers, they're not tying your usage to an explicit file with your name and favorite pasta varieties...

...BUT that forced transmission of "anonymous user data", could potentially be super effective in identifying and manipulating you. With enough of it, you can easily put together a profile of an individual.

Heck, for a while, TOR would advise against resizing your brower window because the window size in pixels could potentially help fingerprint you on the web. How nuts is that?!

Most people actually worried about a spook digging through "\videos\Homework\" are indeed paranoid.

But there's been a lot of research at what can be done even if you're just "userID 1284hdkfuw724bfiueb"

[-] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

Sure but it still requires trusting them when they pinky promise they won't send any recall data. Fuck them tbh. It just makes me feel even more right about my decision to switch to Linux years ago.

[-] jdeath@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago

how would they even monetize that? so basic

[-] Sabata11792@ani.social 1 points 4 months ago

Won't somebody please think of the starving shareholders.

[-] lseif@sopuli.xyz 5 points 5 months ago

exactly! do people expect windows to scan every local file too??!

[-] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 7 points 5 months ago

Pretty sure it does that already, at least with defender

[-] lath@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Also, the explorer indexer at the very least takes note of what files it has stored.

this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2024
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