How are you handling video calls in light of Win 11 Recall / Copilot?
I do not consent to other people randomly recording me. How on earth do I vet everyone's operating systems for work calls?
Right now I am angry & thus not framing the question elegantly. For the love of all that's holy, do not lecture me about asking the wrong question or in the wrong way.
If you have mandatory work video calls, how are you handling this yourself?
@ShaulaEvans this is always the issue - end-to-end encryption only works when the endpoints are secure.
This is not the first time MS has done something egregiously privacy invasive by taking advantage of the OS (they stopped doing any number of things years ago because the EU fined the ever-living shit out of them), but they have appeared to decide they are going to try again. They will never stop.
It is really infuriating - you more or less have to trust your hardware and/or operating system. Yes tech nerds like me can (and do and will) influence choices there for ourselves, but even then one is still at the mercy of the other participants' choices re: communication.
@Oggie@ShaulaEvans but Microsoft will only care about its own products having the functionality - probably only for enterprise users - to do this. They will give zero shits about offering that functionality to non-MS apps until some government makes them, historically, and even then they will have gained a terrible concession.
So, one lens on the weird direction of the modern Internet is that entities created to route you to cool stuff, e.g. search, social media, have especially in the last 5-10 years been taking an ever larger part of the pie via having giant networks. Google can now control whether a news site lives or dies. Meta can take 99.5% of all ad revenue displayed next to an artist's work and they have no power.
Ignoring expert consensus, feeling no shame following exposés showing tech lobbyists shaping these EU surveillance proposals, EU politicians are at it again
So, we'll reiterate: Signal would rather leave the EU market than subject our users to mass gov surveillance. FULL STOP
@Mer__edith and as an intentional EU citizen I would have to have to make my use of Signal more complicated to gain its privacy benefits in spite of the EU, but am very glad Signal is taking this stance.
@matrig one wonders though - is he surprised over the fact, or over that fact that people know and that he has to publicly respond? I admit, the entire Bundesrat has been a confounding mystery to me for years, and Cassis more so