Microsoft’s Recall feature, which creates screenshots of mostly everything you see or do on a Copilot Plus PC, has been mired in controversy ever since it was announced earlier this year. After security researchers found that a pre-release version of the Recall database wasn’t encrypted, Microsoft moved to delay the feature and overhaul it with a big focus on security.
Recall still isn’t even available to test yet on Copilot Plus PCs, but some good old fashioned fear, uncertainty, and doubt is spreading about Microsoft supposedly secretly installing it on the latest version of Windows 11.
IT manager and YouTuber Chris Titus first discovered that Microsoft’s latest update to Windows 11, version 24H2, has references to Recall that…