š£ The rushed integration of AI into everything is a major threat to privacy, as we've been saying.
Microsoft Recall is a great (not great!) example of exactly why--it screenshots everything on your desktop, to give AI the data to tell you...what you were doing on desktop.
So, Signal took steps to protect you and everyone using Signal on Windows 11 from Recall's hunger for (Signal) data.
Read more about how we navigated, and why we need to ecosystem to a lot more š
https://signal.org/blog/signal-doesnt-recall/
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