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If one chats/mails with a person using Windows, despite using secure private protocols, every message will be stored by Microsoft's Windoze Recall. Either I'm missing something but this feature seems like the most grotesque breach in online privacy/security.

What are ways to avoid this except for using obfuscated text?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

It can be turned off so it's up to the person you're messaging. Once you send something the person at the other end is in control of what happens to it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Once you send something the person at the other end is in control of what happens to it.

True, but this is the beauty of trust. I decide to communicate one way or another with someone depending on the level of trust. Them deciding to break that trust is a risk I chose to take. However, I do not choose to communicate with Microsoft, whatsoever. Windows Recall is the most blatant piece of spyware ever; beyond comprehension how this is so normalized.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

You have to trust the person you're communicating with has turned it off. That's my point. It's an optional feature

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