Microsoft recently released Recall, getting mixed reactions. Damir Kahvedžić of ProSearch addresses the debate on Microsoft’s total Recall here!

In his post titled Productivity vs Privacy: The Debate on Microsoft’s Total Recall (available here), Damir identifies Recall as an AI powered tool that Microsoft claims will solve the problem of users forgetting what they did on their PCs. The system will allow them to search for anything they have seen on their screens even if they did not bookmark or save the content.

To do this, the Recall system will automatically log everything a user does, including app activity, browsing sites and more. It will make transcriptions of live meetings and videos, take screenshots of the user’s display every five seconds and recognize the objects and text in the images. All this information will be aggregated to a local Large Language Model (LLM) and made searchable to the user for complete recall.

If you’re thinking this sounds like spyware then you are not alone. The reaction has been swift with BBC calling it a ‘privacy nightmare’, cybersecurity researchers being appalled and comparisons being made to that creepy eye gismo episode in the suspense series Black Mirror.

So, what are the forensics impacts of Recall? And how has Microsoft responded to the privacy concerns? Find out here, it’s just one more click! I’ll be back! 😉

So, what do you think? Do you plan to use Recall? Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

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