The company is reducing Copilot entry points on Windows, starting with Photos, Widgets, Notepad, and other apps.
Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/20/microsoft-rolls-back-some-of-its-copilot-ai-bloat-on-windows/
Considering it’s a closed source, proprietary system, you sure seem confident about the 'local only not spying ’ thing.
use wireshark. there are many ways to monitor traffic
I hear you, but it’s no secret Windows sends telemetry data back to the Mother Ship, so how can you distinguish whether or not that includes Recall data?
one of the only things this sort of AI is good at is summarizing, so it could be distilling your most sensitive info down into a brief but juicy dossier that it actually sends encrypted to microsoft. Or it could only send when specific content like political dissidence is detected. Wireshark solves nothing
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