Warning: Your PC will now become a key logger on steroids with the next Windows upgrade, and there isn’t much you can do about it.

With the new Windows upgrade and the installation of the new Recall function, Microsoft will now be spying and surveilling every single keystroke, website, word document, and Zoom/Skype conversation you participate in. This includes taking screenshots of your bank account details and passwords when logging on, journalists’ source details, right down to the independent author’s latest draft on Word Doc. If you commit wrongthink, don’t think for a second Microsoft can’t ban you.

As reported by ArsTechnica, who, in the future, might face a ban for writing such an article courtesy of this new software, “To make it work, Recall records everything users do on their PC, including activities in apps, communications in live meetings, and websites visited for research. Despite encryption and local storage, the new feature raises privacy concerns for certain Windows users.”

This ‘insanely intrusive’ software should concern all who care about data leaks, privacy and/or freedom. This new update leaves no stone unturned, for private users through to companies. And if you think, well, I’ll finally swap over to Mac so I can retain some privacy, you’re deluding yourself. Mac also has a third-party software similar to this called Rewind.

Call me silly, but I can strangely see more and more uptake with Linux.  

According to Microsoft’s own website, Recall uses Copilot+ PC advanced processing capabilities “to take snapshots [that] are encrypted and saved on your PC’s hard drive. You can use Recall to locate the content you have viewed on your PC using search or on a timeline bar that allows you to scroll through your snapshots.”

Recall will no doubt be enabled by default once installed with the next update. This mandated upgrade, as they all are these days, will now be built into your operating system. Yes, we can turn it off, but how many of you know people who are even capable of navigating such a thing? The fact remains that Microsoft is banking on the population’s computer illiteracy to employ a mass surveillance program.

And if you have nothing to hide? I doubt anyone is willing to have their bank or business login details screenshot and stored with a third party for the data to be redistributed later on the dark web or even within Microsoft to determine if they cancel and ban you from their subscriptions. And, yes, they can and already are banning people.

And it gets better. To pay for the extra surveillance, they’ve already come up with a new CPU so they can track you—expenses out of your pocket, of course.

“To use Recall, users will need to purchase one of the new “Copilot Plus PCs” powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite chips, which include the necessary neural processing unit (NPU). There are also minimum storage requirements for running Recall, with a minimum of 256GB of hard drive space and 50GB of available space.”

All I can suggest is this: Disable it via your settings and avoid, avoid, avoid.