If one chats/mails with a person using Windows, despite using secure private protocols, every message will be stored by Microsoft’s Windoze Recall. Either I’m missing something but this feature seems like the most grotesque breach in online privacy/security.

What are ways to avoid this except for using obfuscated text?

  • arscynic@slrpnk.netOP
    5·
    6 hours ago

    But it doesn’t matter, because everyone else uses Gmail, so any time I communicate with someone, Google reads my emails, despite the fact that I never agreed to their oppressive ToS.

    That’s avoidable by PGP encrypting your emails though. But I’m sure you know that, and I’m sure you meant that getting most people to use PGP is a pipe dream.

    • curry@programming.dev
      2·
      6 hours ago

      Even if you got them using PGP somehow, there’s always a risk. Apps designed to upload screenshots, share contacts or simple human errors like “hey did you hear X saying Y”, etc.

      • arscynic@slrpnk.netOP
        1·
        3 hours ago

        Yes, but Recall is spyware by design posing as a benign feature. This kind of unethical behaviour I vehemently oppose.