Microsoft AI calling instrument is being returned unintended

Proponents of their security and privacy are moving in Windows 11 for a battle against the call, which is in Windows 11 and depicts and stores whatever the user does every three seconds.

When the call was introduced in May 2024, security doctors have widespread it if they could have even brief office access to the Windows device because of the creation of a golden mine for malicious insiders, criminals or spies. Privacy defenders warned that the call for abuse in the violence settings had reached an intimate partner. They also pointed out that nothing would stop preventing the sensitive disappeared content sent through privacy protection messengers such as signal.

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After months of reaction, Microsoft later suspended the call. On Thursday, the company announced that it is returning the call. It is currently only available with access to Windows 11 Build 26100.3902. Over time, this feature is broader. Microsoft officials wrote:

Remember (preview)* Save your time by presenting a completely new way to search for the things you’ve seen or done on your PC. With the Copilot+ PCS artificial intelligence capabilities, it can now be quickly returned to any application, website, image or documents by describing its content quickly. To use the call, you need to save on instant photos, which are images of your activity, and sign up to confirm your presence in Windows Hi so that you can only access your instant photos. You always control what you are stored by instant photos and you can save instant photos at any time. As you use your Copilot+ PC during the day and work on documents or presentations, you make video calls and background changes in activities, remembering it takes regular photos and helps you find faster and easier. When you need to find or return to what you have done before, remember and with Windows Hello. Once you find what you are looking for, you can re -re -re -re -do the program, website or document or use clicking to perform any image or text in the instant photo you found.

Microsoft hopes that the need for the need to choose and pause the call will help you subside the collective uprising that occurred last year. It probably won’t be for a variety of reasons.

First, even if the user never refuses to remember, they have no control over the B Device Settings via Z. This means that anything that user A sends is processed by detecting the light character and AI Copilot, and then stored in a database listed on other users. This illegally collects different types of user -sensitive contents, including photos, passwords, medical conditions and encrypted videos and messages. As the author’s privacy guide wrote in Mastodon:

Unfortunately, this feature extracts your information from any safe software you may have used and stores it on a person’s computer in a way that is likely to be safer.

Of course, this person can manually take a picture of all of this, but this feature makes even one person with melting unaware, or he may mistakenly assume that he is safe enough.

This feature has not yet been completely released, but it may be soon.

There will be an easy -to -search database that records a device every moment of waking up a device, for others who are not interested in the best users. This level of precision archive materials will undoubtedly be summoned by lawyers and governments. The threat actors who are able to install their spy on a device no longer need to clean it for the most sensitive data stored there. Instead, they remember exactly as the browser database now stores passwords.

Microsoft immediately did not respond to a message why he recalled again less than a year after that, he received such a cold welcome. For critics, the call is probably one of the most heinous signs of login, the term recently used for the use of unwanted artificial intelligence and other features in the products available if there are minor benefits for users.

This story appeared first ARS Technica.