the company says that Recall will be opt-in by default, so users will need to decide to turn it on

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      It should never have gotten to the external feedback stage because internal feedback should have been sufficient to kill the idea before it even got a name due to it being such a security and privacy risk. The fact that it didn’t is worrying from a management perspective.

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        You’re on Lemmy so I assume you’re in a tech job, so honestly I’m surprised by your surprise.

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        Pretty straightforward systemic failure – Dev team, I would guess, assumed full disk encryption would cover it, and nobody checked the assumptions. Or to rephrase: it was fucking obviously encrypted dude.

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      You shouldn’t need external feedback to know that putting security cameras inside bathroom stalls is completely deranged.

      This is that level.

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          Yes, it is. Easily. It’s that invasive.

          It will record your porn if you use a functional browser instead of edge. It will record your nudes if you ever see them on your PC. And on top of that, it will also record all sorts of other sensitive personal information that can be used for identity theft if you just do basic shit like using banking websites. Looking at your passwords at some point in your life is also perfectly normal behavior, and it will expose that too.

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        Is this supposed to mean something? I’m old and not up to date on the new script kiddy slang.