If screenshots were OCRed and then only text was uploaded, I doubt you would notice anything.

Pssst... You can extract metadata from data and then train on those "anonymized" metadata ;)

> This is some serious tinfoil hattery.

microsoft regularly makes promises about privacy and telemetry, and regularly breaks them. They have been multiple law suites about this.

In germany we say "Wo ein Trog ist, sammeln sich die Schweine", especially in the discussion around recall.

Have they lost any of those lawsuits?

So it only counts as going back on their word if they lose a lawsuit about it?

Sure, or if there's any evidence that these aren't just BS allegations. The signal to noise ratio in this space is 0

So just as an example, Facebook's login page has "it's free and always will be" prominently displayed. Your logic is that if Facebook switches to a purely subscription model and avoids getting nailed in court for lying specifically (either through legal gymnastics or by settlement), then they didn't actually lie? And if Recall is "supposed" to be analyzed on-device but all your personal information somehow makes it to MS servers, they haven't lied to you unless someone successfully sues them in court?

They have it in their absolute authority to push out a patch at any time that will make the data be uploaded, even if it isn't right now.