Microsoft cans Recall
PART OF MICROSOFT’S PLANS for the AI PC, or ‘Copilot+’, was Recall. This AI-powered system takes snapshots of your screen and uses OCR to produce a searchable database of text. Sounds useful, but not everybody was happy. The system is unselective, so bank details, private correspondence, and more is logged, creating a treasure trove of data for hackers and the curious. Anybody using your account has full access, itself something of a concern, but it was discovered that physical access to your system wasn’t even required. Those text files can be accessed by anyone with a Windows profile on that system, a process that can be actioned remotely.