{"id":2015,"date":"2024-07-12T12:52:04","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T10:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/?p=2015"},"modified":"2024-07-12T12:52:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T10:52:04","slug":"risks-when-implementing-the-recall-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/?p=2015","title":{"rendered":"Risks when implementing the \u201eRecall\u201c function"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With the launch of the new Copilot+PC computers, Microsoft introduced an innovative function called &#8222;Recall&#8220;, which continuously records the screen. Recall creates snapshots of the screen content every five seconds, which are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t5baa4d95.emailsys1a.net\/c\/107\/7581761\/4225\/0\/11201873\/292\/499154\/4d95e1be4b.html\">stored and processed locally<\/a>. This provides users with the ability to search screen content in natural language and automatically obtain results, including visual matches.<br>\u00a0<br>It is crucial to consider this feature critically, as the capture and storage of screen content containing sensitive information could have devastating consequences in the event of a data breach. The current implementation of Recall stores the data unencrypted in a SQLite database and the screenshots\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t5baa4d95.emailsys1a.net\/c\/107\/7581761\/4225\/0\/11201873\/292\/499155\/d392e6a09c.html\">in an accessible folder on the computer<\/a>. This practice poses potential security risks, as unencrypted data can be vulnerable to unauthorized access and misuse.<br>\u00a0<br>Microsoft plans to offer Recall with opt-in when Windows 11 is installed. The prerequisite for using this feature is a Copilot+ computer with NPU. According to Microsoft, however, Recall will be released as a preview as part of the Windows Insider Program (WIP)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t5baa4d95.emailsys1a.net\/c\/107\/7581761\/4225\/0\/11201873\/292\/499244\/22b13002db.html\">in the coming weeks<\/a>. In view of this, a careful review of the implementation of Recall in a personal and corporate context should be carried out to ensure appropriate security precautions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the launch of the new Copilot+PC computers, Microsoft introduced an innovative function called &#8222;Recall&#8220;, which continuously records the screen. Recall creates<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/?p=2015\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2016,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions\/2016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}