Even after a revamp, Microsoft's 'Recall' tool, which takes screen snapshots, continues to capture sensitive data like credit card numbers and social security numbers, despite a new filter designed to prevent this.
Even after a revamp, Microsoft 's AI-powered " Recall " tool, which quietly takes snapshots of your screen every few seconds, is still capturing your sensitive informationfound, the Windows feature routinely captured credit card numbers, social security numbers, and other financial and personal data that was onscreen — even when the new "filter sensitive information" setting was enabled.
"When I entered a credit card number and a random username / password into a Windows Notepad window, Recall captured it, despite the fact that I had text such as 'Capital One Visa' right next to the numbers," wrote Avram Piltch,"Similarly, when I filled out a loan application PDF in Microsoft Edge, entering a social security number, name and DOB, Recall captured that." The issue persisted when Piltch used his real information.
"My examples were designed to test the filter, but they're not fringe cases. Real people do put sensitive personal information into PDF forms," he added. "They write things down or copy and paste them into text files and then key them into websites that don't look like typical shopping sites.", when the plan was for it to be debuted in the first crop of "Copilot+ PCs," Microsoft's new line of AI-laden Windows 11 laptops.
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