| > OpenRecall is a fully open-source, privacy-first [...] Depends what you mean by "privacy-first". Much like the most privacy-respecting practices of a company might be not to capture certain user data at all, that also applies to data you let be captured on your own computer. Just because it's initially only on your device, and is encrypted, doesn't mean you're the only one who can ever access it. There's hackers, disgruntled significant others, software bugs, interacting tech you don't understand, future tech, and various kinds of investigations. When thinking about adopting new kinds of extreme self-surveillance, individuals should make informed choices about benefit vs. risk. Did you really need this, or do you need to capture information more selectively. Maybe just wait a year, listening for other people's sobs of regret. Say, you could let "influencers", anxious to generate social media content about using all the latest shiny things, be your guinea pigs. (Confession: In '97 or '98, I made a desktop program HTTP proxy called Webephant, which permitted future keyword search of every Web page you visited while it was running. I didn't think about privacy implications at the time, but I should've. These full desktop recall things are much more invasive.) |
And thieves, who didn't originally want your data at all, but just a new laptop. But hey, it's 2028, and this new quantum algorithm can decrypt anything, so "Why not look through whatever happens to be on this computer I stole yesterday...?"