Recall remains a phenomenally bad idea. I don’t understand why anyone would green light it.
It sounds like a great idea if you don’t think too long about it and none else has it yet. People like that don’t care about security or privacy concerns, as long as there is no law against it. Gotta earn money and the competition is fierce.
And with “people” I mean executives just as much as engineers. Gotta earn money fast > being ethically aware of the implications of your work
I guess. I mean I immediately thought “I don’t want it capturing the porn I look at”, but maybe people really don’t think about privacy at all.
I don’t really see how it makes money, since it’s bundled into windows (right?).
It makes money the same way anything like this makes money: selling your data. Maybe it improves ad revenue by giving more relevant ads, or maybe they’ll just outright sell your info.
That said, porn is the least of your worries here, I’m thinking it might scrape sensitive info like social security numbers, bank logins, etc, and an attacker then scrapes Recall to get all of it and now you’re screwed.
