The Windows feature announced in May 2024 that photographs the screen every few seconds, stores the images locally and lets a model search them, so a user can find anything they have ever seen. Announced as the reason to buy a Copilot+ PC, pulled from launch in June after security researchers examined the database, and shipped in April 2025 as an opt-in with encryption. The row is on file elsewhere.
Someone remembers the June 2024 statement moving the feature to the Insider programme, published on a Thursday evening. The record notes that the eleven-month gap is a fact about the product as much as the argument.
A May 2025 update to the Signal messaging app that blocked screenshots on Windows by default, with a blog post explaining why. The record notes that an app opting out of an operating-system feature was the review.
The record notes that the feature does exactly what it was described as doing, and that the description was the problem.
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