It was taking screenshots and storing them locally - the (justified) anger about it was that anyone with physical access to your machine (eg an abusive spouse) could see what you had been doing, and it was to be turned on by default.
By trustable 3rd parties?
> last year
But this year it has MORE "AI" doesn't it?
Yes, that thing was hacked to pieces by privacy researchers.
I haven't been following updates on Recall since June last year: https://simonwillison.net/tags/recall/
It was taking screenshots and storing them locally - the (justified) anger about it was that anyone with physical access to your machine (eg an abusive spouse) could see what you had been doing, and it was to be turned on by default.