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Stephen Downes

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Has the headline states, Microsoft is relaunching 'Recall'. "It was designed to help people find things they had looked at or worked on previously by searching through desktop screenshots taken every few seconds." Now, you'll have to explicitly turn it on. ""Recall is an opt-in experience. Snapshots and any associated information are always encrypted." Would I use Recall? If it performed as expected, sure. But it's like Google's promise that you can just use search to find anything in Gmail - it sounds good in theory, but it's really hard to make such a feature work well in practice. What about privacy? I grew up in a small town - to me, the whole concept of privacy has always been a big city thing. I think people will adapt. More: techradar, the Verge, Ars Technica.

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