- Microsoft introduced Recall, an AI-powered photographic memory in Copilot+ AI PCs at Microsoft Build 2024.
- While offering an exciting prospective functionality, Recall caused unease in privacy advocates and cybersecurity experts.
- Following a turbulent week at Redmond, the feature has now been pulled from release on June 18 with Copilot+ PCs.
Microsoft has relegated the opt-in Recall feature from being broadly available to the Windows Insider program as a preview. Slated for the latest version of Windows in the upcoming Copilot+ PCs, Recall’s public release has now been shelved for additional testing.
As it stands, Microsoft’s Copilot+ PCs will now ship without the Recall feature, which leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to navigate through their previous actions seamlessly. The only problem is that Recall takes screenshots for recordkeeping.
Cybersecurity expert Kevin Beaumont explained how Recall poses a grave security risk to anyone using it in a blog post.
To assuage cybersecurity and privacy concerns, Microsoft rolled out database encryption for Recall, implemented Windows Hello-based authentication, and made it an opt-in feature….
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