Sign mentioned in the present day that it’s updating its Home windows app to stop the system from capturing screenshots, thereby defending the content material that’s on show.
The corporate mentioned that this new “display screen safety” setting is enabled by default on Home windows 11. Sign mentioned that this new function is designed to guard customers’ privateness from Microsoft’s Recall function, which was introduced final 12 months. Recall captures screenshots of the system repeatedly to recollect your whole actions, so you may scroll again in time to recollect what you had been taking a look at.
Whereas the corporate paused the rollout of the function final 12 months after backlash, Microsoft began testing it once more in April by way of the Home windows Preview Channel. Microsoft has made the function opt-in and has additionally added a technique to pause it anytime. Sign mentioned that regardless of these modifications, the function nonetheless captures content material that could be delicate.
Sign mentioned that if you end up attempting to take a screenshot with the brand new display screen safety setting enabled, you’ll simply get a clean display screen.
The corporate additionally warned that when the setting is enabled, some capabilities, resembling display screen readers, may not work as meant. You’ll be able to flip off the setting by way of Sign Settings > Privateness > Display screen safety.
The app will present you a warning if you end up attempting to disable this feature, and you’ll have to click on on Verify to finish the motion. That is to stop you from unintentionally turning the function off whereas attempting to regulate different settings.
“We hope that the AI groups constructing techniques like Recall will suppose by way of these implications extra fastidiously sooner or later. Apps like Sign shouldn’t need to implement a “one bizarre trick” in an effort to keep the privateness and integrity of their providers with out correct developer instruments,” Sign mentioned in a weblog publish.
