Microsoft’s AI-Assisted Computers: Still a privacy debacle in the making

Envision a situation where your Windows laptop captures images of all your activities, encompassing personal details, credit card and financial records, access codes, online logins, emails, a compilation of websites you wish to keep private, work-related data, and more. Picture your laptop organizing all this into a searchable database — and ponder on the significance of this data if it falls into unauthorized hands.

There are certainly no challenges concerning security or privacy here — because, why would anything go awry?

The reality is quite different. In a realm where Windows has been persistently targeted by cyber threats for years, and continues to fall victim to breaches, where Windows has facilitated the theft of crucial information from major tech corporations, including Microsoft itself, and from high-profile politicians in addition to numerous ordinary users, the screenshot scenario represents the ultimate security and privacy crisis.

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Andy Curtis is an award-winning security consultant, researcher and public speaker. He has been working in the computer security industry since the early 1990s, having been employed by state and federal government, leading healthcare and banking providers across three continents. He has given talks about computer security for some of the world’s largest companies, worked with law enforcement agencies on investigations into hacking groups, and is a regular voice on TV and radio explaining IT security threats.

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