General Article Microsoft’s climbdown over its creepy Recall feature shows its AI strategy is far from intelligent

Topic Selected: Protecting Our Privacy Book Volume: 451

The tech company’s new Windows machines can take constant screenshots of users’ every action – quelle surprise, it’s a privacy minefield.

By John Naughton

On 20 May, Yusuf Mehdi, a cove who rejoices in the magnificent title of executive vice-president, consumer chief marketing officer of Microsoft, launched its Copilot+ PCs, a ‘new category’ of Windows machines that are ‘designed for AI’. They are, needless to say, ‘the fastest, most intelligent Windows PCs ever built’ and they will ‘enable y...

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