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Microsoft Recall offers a ‘sensitive information filter’ to avoid saving your credit card details – but whoops, it doesn’t work

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  • Microsoft’s ‘Recall’ feature for Windows has been mired in controversy over privacy concerns
  • The tool uses AI to constantly take screenshots and create a searchable timeline of your activity
  • A new ‘sensitive information’ filter has been deployed for testing, but it doesn’t appear to work very well

That’s right folks, it’s that time of the week again: Microsoft Recall has yet again stumbled straight out of the gate, this time accused of storing personal user data such as credit card details and social security numbers – even with a supposed ‘sensitive information’ filter switched on.

A highly controversial feature originally announced for Copilot+ PCs way back in June, Recall uses AI to effectively take constant screenshots of whatever you’re doing on your computer and arrange those screenshots in a timeline, allowing you to ‘recall’ back to an earlier point by prompting Copilot to search back through your system history.

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