There has been a global outcry over Recall since it was announced by Microsoft on May 20. Initially set for an official launch in the Copilot+ PCs,.
Facepalm: After weeks of anger and outcry, Microsoft has decided to postpone the upcoming release of its controversial Recall feature. The auto-screenshotting tool was supposed to arrive on June 18 alongside the launch of the Copilot+ PCs. Now, its availability will be limited to Windows Insiders, at least for the time being.
There has been a global outcry over Recall since it was announced by Microsoft on May 20. Initially set for an official launch in the Copilot+ PCs, the feature constantly takes screenshots of whatever you’re doing every few seconds, storing the snapshots so users can search through a scrollable timeline to find something they’ve been working on.
Recall was always going to be controversial, especially after a researcher pointed out the glaring security holes as the OCR (optical character recognition) data for each snapshot is stored in a plaintext SQLite database file.
