Windows 11’s Recall Feature: A Privacy Nightmare or Europe’s Data Compliance Savior?
Windows 11’s new Recall Export feature lets users in the European Economic Area share encrypted snapshots with third-party apps. Just don’t lose the export code—Microsoft can’t help there! Rolling out to Windows Insiders, this preview aims to address data compliance needs, but it’s caused some privacy concerns.
Hot Take:
Windows 11 is about to give European users a feature that’s more like a spy camera than an OS enhancement. Meet Recall Export: the tool you didn’t know you needed and probably still don’t want. With its exciting combination of privacy concerns and a new export code you’ll probably lose, it’s sure to make managing your data as thrilling as a game of hide and seek—except you’re always ‘it.’
Key Points:
- Recall Export lets users share encrypted activity snapshots with third-party apps through a new export code.
- If you lose your export code, prepare for a digital ‘Groundhog Day’ as you’ll have to reset and lose all previous data.
- Microsoft warns that the feature might be glitchy, especially on managed PCs in the EEA using Entra ID.
- Recall snapshots can be exported for specific time frames and require Windows Hello authorization.
- Recall is rolling out to Windows Insiders but comes with a history of being a ‘privacy nightmare.’
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