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Microsoft Recall screenshots credit cards and Social Security numbers, even with the "sensitive information" filter enabled (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] gomp@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Apologies if this is explained in the article (sorry, as a Linux user I don't care enough about this story to actually read the article), but... how is a filter that avoid taking screenshots of sensitive info supposed to work? I mean, what kind of divination algorithm can detect something is sensitive without looking at it first?

[–] rutrum@lm.paradisus.day 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It might take a screenshot and keep in memory, and only save to disk after some image processing that detects if there is sensitive data.