# Where was this thread?

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**Created:** [October 12, 2024, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-thread/1008680 "2024-10-12T03:49:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2024, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-thread/1008680/1 "2024-10-12T03:49:15Z")

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About how a new feature of Windows, that if not disabled, logs everything that appears on your screen, utterly trashing privacy such as medical records. But I can’t find a combination of search terms that brings it up. It was fairly recent; last couple of months?

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**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2024, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-thread/1008680/2 "2024-10-12T04:38:15Z")

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> [@Lumpy](#):
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> new feature of Windows, that if not disabled, logs everything that appears on your screen, utterly trashing privacy such as medical records.

It was mentioned in this thread with this quote by @eschereal:

> [@I am pitting Microsoft again](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-pitting-microsoft-again/1006013/33):
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> I guess if you want to beat on MicroSoft, they recalled Recall, but will [bring it back to Windows](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/microsoft-will-try-the-data-scraping-windows-recall-feature-again-in-october/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) in a month or two. (Recall is a feature that takes constant screenshots of your computer and parses the data out of them so that, if you screw up, you can find out what you were doing 10 minutes ago, or yesterday. Also, “feature” is a synonym for “bug”.)

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**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2024, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-thread/1008680/3 "2024-10-12T23:10:03Z")

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Thanks! Microsoft is adding so much crap with every update it’s hard to keep them straight. I just (hopefully) disabled Copilot yesterday.