Turn Off Windows recall to protect your privacy
Recall is an AI-driven feature that allows your operating system to “remember” what you’ve done, where you placed files, and other activities. It does that by saving snapshots of your desktop once every five seconds, then lets you search for information from those snapshots using natural language to help you remember what you were doing. Don’t remember where you saw that recipe for bolognese? You can just ask Recall.
Recall has been the subject of controversy since it was first announced due to the potential security and privacy concerns. It also eats up a respectable amount of storage—you’ll need at least 50GB free for Recall to work, and it’ll automatically disable itself once your PC’s free space drops below 25GB.
Microsoft claims the data is only processed locally (which is true, it works without an internet connection), but I’m still not a fan of having yet more of my data processed and analyzed.
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