Opinion firms love to use familiar words in an unorthodox way. "We value your privacy" is really the digital equivalent of a mugger admiring your phone. And "partnering"? Usually it means "The one with more money bribes the one with more credibility."
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There is a more accurate technical use of "partner," as in the kind that comes with a toxic relationship. Windows is that partner because it keeps doing things even when told to stop. It promises to change but doesn't. It is constantly angling to take control. Do you want proof? The recall comes back.
Readers may remember Recall as a big part of Microsoft's AI/ML Windows 11 strategy. It creates a searchable timeline of your desktop activity by constantly taking snapshots of work in progress and feeding them to a remote analytics engine. Microsoft could not say how this universal auto-snoop was compatible with the company's privacy and data protection policies. Because it wasn't. After copious assistance from the damn beak, Recall was recalled for unspecified fixes.
Now it's on its way back, and the fixes remain unspecified. Microsoft really wants us to have it, even though no one asked for it. If we wanted to, there are ways to do it without all the centralized AI/ML nonsense. It's still not a good idea to create a huge database of work done across multiple apps and services, even if it's stored locally. A tempting goal indeed. It doesn't make much sense – and in that, Recall is a microcosm of how misapplication of AI/ML can risk another AI winter.
