AdGuard joins the Windows Recall backlash party — "Leaving backdoors wide open and hoping Microsoft will always act in good faith isn’t a solid privacy strategy"

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Windows Recall is arguably Microsoft's most controversial feature, deemed by experts as a PR disaster and security nightmare. Last year, the company announced a handful of next-gen AI features as part of the 24H2 release, including Windows Recall, Live Captions, and more.

However, the company faced backlash for shipping the feature without having elaborate security measures to protect the users' privacy from sophisticated attacks deployed by bad actors.