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‘s Microsoft Recall, which continuously records one’s activities in a series of screenshots and activity logs. It is aimed at helping out users by answering questions related to their recent activity. While the activity logs and screenshots might be helpful to you it could also pose security risks.Research, was asked to talk about the data privacy concerns surrounding Microsoft Recall at the US university’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence’s fifth-anniversary conference.

Observing her unwillingness to get to the point, Brynjolfsson further asked “Is it stored locally?” He shared his concerns about data privacy. “So suppose I activate Recall, and I don’t know if I can, but when you have something like that available, I would be worried about all my personal files going up into the cloud, Microsoft, or whatever. Do you have it kept locally?”

Teevan finally confirmed that the screenshots and activity logs are stored locally. “So Recall is a feature that captures information. It’s a local Windows functionality, nothing goes into the cloud, everything’s stored locally.” While the information is stored locally, it might not be a complete solution to the problem. The saved files could also come in handy for a system intruder. The files stored in Recall’s unencrypted SQLite database can still be extracted and accessed, which might not be ideal for certain scenarios.Windows Recall can run on Snapdragon-powered notebook with no NPU and just 3.

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