Microsoft caves, announces they have disabled default AI recall
(www.securityweek.com)
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Microsoft loves to give itself black eyes.
"Your PC is now going to spy on everything you do, for your own safety" What the fuck?
"Xbox one requires the camera on at all times to spy on you, for your own safety" What the fuck?
People remember this. For decades. For every thousand people that forget, there's always one or two that remember the times when Microsoft dipped itself in stupid and tried to pass it off as perfectly fine.
It's the foot in the door technique. Ridiculous overreach, then a measured step back based on backlash, but still overreach. "See we listened we're only doing 5 units of evil instead of 10" and then they slowly ramp it back up over the years.
Yup. For everyone who complained about people like Don Mattrick, he won in the end.
How many Xbox owners use Game Pass? Congrats, you are part of the "all digital future" where you own nothing and will be happy.
The spyware initiative never ended, they just scaled it back enough to reduce major public outcry.
They will keep doing this until everyone has no mouth but must scream.
This is exactly what they did with lockdown measures and mandates. Put something out, gauge public reaction, partially withdrawn, have others suggest it, retry and repeat until the public relent and it's fully implemented. Then do the same procedure on something else.
Adobe is behaving the same way too so they can have control of your data for financial gain.
Remember when the original Xbox One launched and they had to walk back the new always-online 'feature' after public outcry?
Nowadays always-online is the standard in AAA gaming, not even at the behest of console makers but at the behest of publishers.