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> Please correct me if I'm wrong, but IIRC Recall is opt-in and keeps data on-device

I read this and I think: are you the only person on Earth to never have used a Microsoft product?

If you believe that Microsoft is stealing Recall data behind its users' backs do you also believe Microsoft is stealing any or all of the files stored on Windows devices belonging to billions of personal and business users? If Microsoft isn't doing that could it be because that would be suicidal from a business perspective?

I don't believe they are proactively stealing user files, but they absolutely pit in backdoors for the NSA and other western intelligence agencies to exploit at will (and I'm sure non-western agencies do it too any time they can discover them).

> do you also believe Microsoft is stealing any or all of the files stored on Windows devices belonging to billions of personal and business users?

OneDrive ? /s

(trust us, it is secure)

I'm sorry but I do not fully understand what you're trying to say.

I have used Microsoft products. I have a Windows VM, and an old Windows laptop somewhere. I have no love for Microsoft, and is perfectly aware they can do user-hostile things. Yet, when analyzing something, I'm trying my best to avoid biases and remain neutral and detach from my feelings (or propaganda/ragebait/memes/whatever you call it) when I'm thinking of something. And this particular time, for this particular feature, so far, I believe they did alright.

Microsoft notoriously enables and re-enables features on patching regardless of the user's preferences.

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