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• Recall saves snapshots of user's active window locally and uses screen segmentation and image recognition to extract insights.
• Third-party developers can leverage Recall to offer users the ability to semantically search saved snapshots.
• Critics argue that Recall lacks safety guardrails, potentially allowing threat actors to steal valuable information.
• Microsoft emphasizes that Recall processes content locally and encrypts snapshots, but concerns about user privacy remain.
• The deprecation of VBScript and other features by Microsoft aims to minimize the attack surface and enhance Windows security.