Microsoft’s beefed up Recall security model includes a blessed uninstall op

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• After months of controversy, Microsoft is finally confirming the ability to uninstall Recall.
• The company has done a full review of Recall’s security, and explains why users should trust it.
• Recall will finally be available for testing on Copilot Plus PCs in October.

Big companies don’t need to listen to the little guy, right? Progress is coming for us all, whether we like it or not? One of the many AI-adjacent controversies to grab headlines this year has been Microsoft’s announcement of Recall, a feature for Copilot Plus PCs that uses AI processing of automatically grabbed screenshots to create a record of your historical usage. After facing delays, and rumors of an uninstall option, Microsoft is actually stepping up to explain that it hears us, that it’s made some changes to Recall in the interest of security — and that you really can uninstall it.

Recall’s power is a big reason why so many people are concerned about it. If it knows basically everything you do on your PC, anyone who has access to Recall has access to all of your data — it’s a security nightmare. And that’s part of why when the arrival of Microsoft’s KB5041865 update made it look like it would be possible to uninstall Recall, so many people were interested. At the time, though, Microsoft explained that this was in error, and it seemed like Recall would always be there, like it or not.




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