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Paxxi

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Paxxi, to random
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Microsoft reading the news, seeing all the hate against lgbtq kids being abused by their parents and thinking, hey that's a great business opportunity for AI!

poppastring, to windows
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About 11 Recall

TL;DR;

  • If you reset the PC, you delete all Recall snapshots
  • Recall only works with supported web browsers (Chromium-based)
  • Organizations can simply disable it
  • Can’t save snapshots of InPrivate windows
  • Supports user-facing settings for filtering
  • Feature can be disabled during setup
  • Delete snapshots at any time
  • Everything Recall does stays on your local + PC
  • Data is protected by full-disk encryption (a requirement)

https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-11/302928/windows-11-recall-is-not-a-privacy-concern

Paxxi,
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@poppastring Thurrot is extremely wrong on this one. Microsoft built the ultimate feature for every abuser and no amount of settings can fix that

Paxxi,
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@poppastring yeah. The thing is, it's going to be very hard to make this safe, if inprivate windows are hidden there will inevitably be questions about what the victim was doing during that time.

Filtering websites doesn't work as that's just a list of sites you want to hide from your abuser.

Turning off recall or pausing it will leave suspicious gaps that lead to questioning.

Paxxi,
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@nebula @poppastring nothing was stopping an abuser from doing that. It's an industry that's mostly demonized and considered sleazy.

The fact that this comes in the box and from a company talking about diversity and inclusion and responsible AI is the difference.

Paxxi,
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@nebula @poppastring Microsoft is basically using their credibility to legitimize the domestic abuser Spyware market. Not by choice(I believe) but by accident

Paxxi,
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@nebula @poppastring I haven't read enough about the design of Find My to know what mitigations Apple has and if they're good enough but I agree that it's also a technology that's inherently problematic.

As for fixing it, being vocal and organizing.
Contact your politicians about privacy issues.
Generate a PR shit storm for companies.
Unionize.

Sobieck, to random
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On a recent episode of Behind the Bastards, the host talked about how abusers were able to infiltrate the left in Germany after the war. They were able to hijack a good movement that was antifascist. They warped it in the worst possible way.

I know a lot of the privacy violating shit in tech is just on accident. But I wonder how much of it is just shitty dudes thinking of new ways to sneak in shit to abuse their partner and kids more effectively.

Paxxi,
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@Sobieck I was just having this thought literally a minute before seeing this post 😀

gsuberland, to random
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fucking hell. if you decline optional cookies on screwfix's website they set the basket cookie expiry to a couple of hours and force-refresh your checkout page after a timeout, which causes you to lose everything that was in your basket. what a user-hostile design.

Paxxi,
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@gsuberland we really need a falsehoods developers believe about the gdpr in the style of https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/

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