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The damage is mitigated by the fact it only recalls last 3 days by default
Forensic data recovery. How many 500GB drives ship to PCs that never use more than 20% of that?
"By default" meaning it can be changed.
Then someone in the company gets their device compromised, and security starts looking what happened on the device that time. "We'd have that data, but it was deleted yesterday because of the retention policy on recall" -answer from that new guy in IT dept. Security then reminds that the company policy requires minimum 30 days retention for all logging of security events.