Microsoft announced Recall with Copilot+ PCs on 20 May 2024: a timeline of what you saw on your screen so you can find almost anything later. Productivity chest bump. Privacy cold shower.
The brilliant case
Search your own digital memory. Jump back to a doc, a slide, a chat you forgot to save. Knowledge work is full of "I saw it yesterday" failures. Recall aims at that pain.
The terrifying case
A PC that records your activity is a gift to anyone who gains access: thieves, employers, malware, curious housemates. Screenshots of banking, health, and messages do not belong in a casual history scrub.
Microsoft will talk controls and encryption. The category risk remains. Do we want computers with autobiographical memory? See also why privacy may become premium.
Security researchers will hunt Recall like they hunt browsers. Enterprises will ask how to disable it by policy. Home users will click through prompts they do not read.
That gap between feature delight and threat model is the story. Brilliant tools become terrifying when defaults favor memory over forgetting.
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