It’s so crazy they’re still trying to push this.
Like, even if the screenshots are stored locally, even if they’re encrypted, even if they get deleted after being scanned by the model, even if it’s turned off by default. Even if there is a DRM feature that supposed to keep it away from sensitive information. There will always be edge cases and exploits.
Any company that is handling sensitive information that they can’t legally save and/or share won’t be able to use windows if this is even an option to have on. Like, their business OS monopoly is going to get knee capped by this. To what end? To get training data for agents? For better advertising targeting? To force people to buy new computers, and thus new licenses, by obsoleting and ending support for older ones? It just doesn’t even make cold corporate sense.
I’d guess they’ll have an Opt-In for Enterprise editions?
Until Microsoft decides that enterprise customers should be using it and enable it by default with an update.
There are a lot of fuck-you-money level companies that wouldn’t have that.
Then the corpo lawyer teams say “This is a major legal liability” and say no
The company has also warned Microsoft that if its “move fast and break things” ideology impacts the foundation of privacy-preserving apps like Signal, the app may drop support for Windows altogether in the future.
Ooo-hoo-hoo! Now that’s spicy. I like it.
That seems like a fairly credible threat.
Realistically, most of the users are on smartphones, so, they could do that without seriously hurting their user base, and they’re also not a for profit company obsessed with maximizing the growth of their user base
