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How to avoid Windows Recall as a Linux user? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by arscynic@slrpnk.net to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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If one chats/mails with a person using Windows, despite using secure private protocols, every message will be stored by Microsoft's Windoze Recall. Either I'm missing something but this feature seems like the most grotesque breach in online privacy/security.

What are ways to avoid this except for using obfuscated text?

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 20 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

This is a perfect example of why all of these privacy intrusion practices should be illegal. The same goes for services like Gmail. I use my own email server because I don't want Google reading my messages. But it doesn't matter, because everyone else uses Gmail, so any time I communicate with someone, Google reads my emails, despite the fact that I never agreed to their oppressive ToS. It's a blatant violation of our right to privacy.

[–] arscynic@slrpnk.net 6 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

But it doesn’t matter, because everyone else uses Gmail, so any time I communicate with someone, Google reads my emails, despite the fact that I never agreed to their oppressive ToS.

That's avoidable by PGP encrypting your emails though. But I'm sure you know that, and I'm sure you meant that getting most people to use PGP is a pipe dream.

[–] curry@programming.dev 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Even if you got them using PGP somehow, there's always a risk. Apps designed to upload screenshots, share contacts or simple human errors like "hey did you hear X saying Y", etc.

[–] arscynic@slrpnk.net 4 points 15 hours ago

Yes, but Recall is spyware by design posing as a benign feature. This kind of unethical behaviour I vehemently oppose.