[mrinfinitiesx]

It won't be any different. My guess is they'll pull some stunt like Mozilla is with the Anonym with the PII removed to send data over to further turn Windows and Office 365 in to more of an ad platform.

I could be ignorant. I could be paranoid. I could be wrong. I want to be wrong.

But I don't think I am. And you aren't either. That's what's scary.

[bsmartt]

i think you are wrong. they are trying to convince the average consumer that they need this new laptop with special hardware because they have exclusive magical features (read: OCR) like windows recall. theyre making it intentionally exclusive and locally computed specifically to brag about new capabilities.

[ethbr1]

Today.

And when this feature exists on all machines, and Microsoft has access to the codebase, you don't think other portions of the company will pitch a "+X revenue if we just used it for Y" re-use of the existing data?

Most of Google and Apple's recent user-hostile decisions can be traced directly back to too much potential revenue to refuse (ad tracking data, app store lock-in). Microsoft isn't immune to those same strategic marketing pressures.

Some data is too tempting to use for evil, that the only sane approach is to ensure there's no centralized manner to access it at scale.