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Microsoft Recall takes constant screenshots of everything you do (www.osnews.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Alphane_Moon@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] jeeva@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I suspect you'd have a hard time training anyone to use software based on (say) a screenshot every sixty seconds. May be wrong.

[–] NoiseColor@startrek.website 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I haven't seen 60s before. I understood like it depends on the activity.

[–] jeeva@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Apologies, I thought I'd seen 60 seconds but since looking I've found a bunch of guesses from "every few" to numbers with nothing that looks like a source in headlines.

Going to the source, I found:

are taken every five seconds while content on the screen is different from the previous snapshot.

Should have searched first, sorry!