The Information Commissioners’ Office was looking into a function that periodically takes screenshots of users’ laptops due to security concerns.
Microsoft announced on Thursday in a blog post that Recall will not be “broadly available” on Copilot+ PCs starting on June 18 but rather will be made available “in the coming weeks” to its testing group, the Windows Insider Programme.
Microsoft vice president Pavan Davuluri stated in the article, “This decision is rooted in our commitment to providing a trusted, secure, and robust experience for all customers and to seek additional feedback.”
The feature was described as a “grab and go” by a cyber security expert to Sky News, which is why the delay occurred.
“[Criminals] will basically have everything in one place with Recall,” stated Muhammad Yahya Patel, principal security engineer at the cyber security company Check Point.
According to Mr. Patel, “it’s a grab-and-go kind of attack.”
According to Microsoft, Recall uses artificial intelligence (AI) and “photographic memory” to “help you easily find and remember things you’ve seen using natural language.”.
For instance, a user could search Recall for “red lamp” a few days after finding a lovely red lamp when shopping online.
After that, it would display screenshots of the moments they had been staring at a red lamp and provide links to the websites they had been visiting.
