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Oh, you're saying that Recall is a privacy nightmare and a sweet target for malware? Surprised_pikachu.jpg

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[–] realharo@lemm.ee -4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

Or you could just turn the feature off. Or just not enable it in the first place, as it's possibly illegal to do this without showing an allow/disallow prompt at least - so just don't click allow. Just saying.

[–] Eximius@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Just keep breathing in that copium, while Microsoft already specifically starts banning programs that are a curated-ish list of privacy-sensitive things to disable on windows at one click.

[–] realharo@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

So are you or are you not implying that this would be quietly enabled without explicitly prompting the user?

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 6 points 5 months ago

They have silently switched stuff on by default before

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