Windows Hello authentication, additional encryption being added to protect data.

the company says that Recall will be opt-in by default, so users will need to decide to turn it on

    • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.caEnglish
      10·
      5 months ago

      Features like this can almost never be privacy-friendly because they’re developed expressly to violate your privacy. The value it provides you , as cool as that could be, is just how it’s sold.

    • Spotlight7573@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      6·
      5 months ago

      Yeah, it sounds like it might actually be a useful feature if it wasn’t impossible to do it securely and in a privacy respecting way.

        • Spotlight7573@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          5·
          5 months ago

          To be fair to Microsoft, this was a local model too and encrypted (through Bitlocker). I just feel like the only way you could possibly even try to secure it would be to lock the user out of the data with some kind of separate storage and processing because anything the user can do can be done by malware run by the user. Even then, DRM and how it gets cracked has shown us that nothing like that is truly secure against motivated attackers. Since restricting a user’s access like that won’t happen and might not even be sufficient, it’s just way too risky.