Automatic screenshot: Microsoft relears its controversial function, Recall © Microsoft
Microsoft revives Recall (“Finding”, in French), its AI functionality which automatically captures images of your screen to help you … find everything. A formidable – and dreaded digital assistant – who returns after a year of break, with new guarantees. But doubts persist.
Microsoft Recalls Recall, its AI tool which takes continuous screenshots
A dress spotted online? An important email open to a hurry? A missing message on WhatsApp? With Recall, everything is saved, automatically, without you having to think about it. The apparently attractive idea, evokes an increased memory at the service of productivity. But it also raises a serious question: how far are we ready to go to do not forget anything?
The voluntary activation mechanism is an improvement, but this function can always be diverted.
Copilot+ Recall is integrated into so -called Copilot+ PCs, and currently accessible to members of the Windows Insider program (KB5055627). Europe will have to wait until the end of 2025, probably time to do regulatory household. Microsoft promises a respectful system: activation is voluntary, the captures remain stored locally, and the user can delete them or put recall on any time. Even private mode navigators are supposed to pass between the meshes of the net.
But the criticisms were not paused. Cybersecurity researcher Kris Shrishak always talks about a “Nightmare for privacy”evoking the possibility that sensitive data belonging to others – colleagues, close, customers – be sucked without their consent. Unauthorized access to the device, and all of the captures becomes a gold mine for a pirate.
Microsoft tries to reassure: no transfer to its servers, no sharing between accounts, password locking. The fact remains that the very principle of a benevolent spy, if local, remains difficult to digest for many. Should not computer memory be at the service of the user, not the other way around?
Automatic screenshot: Microsoft relears its controversial function, Recall © Microsoft
Microsoft revives Recall (“Finding”, in French), its AI functionality which automatically captures images of your screen to help you … find everything. A formidable – and dreaded digital assistant – who returns after a year of break, with new guarantees. But doubts persist.
Microsoft Recalls Recall, its AI tool which takes continuous screenshots
A dress spotted online? An important email open to a hurry? A missing message on WhatsApp? With Recall, everything is saved, automatically, without you having to think about it. The apparently attractive idea, evokes an increased memory at the service of productivity. But it also raises a serious question: how far are we ready to go to do not forget anything?
The voluntary activation mechanism is an improvement, but this function can always be diverted.
Copilot+ Recall is integrated into so -called Copilot+ PCs, and currently accessible to members of the Windows Insider program (KB5055627). Europe will have to wait until the end of 2025, probably time to do regulatory household. Microsoft promises a respectful system: activation is voluntary, the captures remain stored locally, and the user can delete them or put recall on any time. Even private mode navigators are supposed to pass between the meshes of the net.
But the criticisms were not paused. Cybersecurity researcher Kris Shrishak always talks about a “Nightmare for privacy”evoking the possibility that sensitive data belonging to others – colleagues, close, customers – be sucked without their consent. Unauthorized access to the device, and all of the captures becomes a gold mine for a pirate.
Microsoft tries to reassure: no transfer to its servers, no sharing between accounts, password locking. The fact remains that the very principle of a benevolent spy, if local, remains difficult to digest for many. Should not computer memory be at the service of the user, not the other way around?
