Sign mentioned in the present day that it’s updating its Home windows app to forestall 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’ll be able to scroll again in time to recollect what you have 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 means 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 when you find yourself making an attempt 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, akin to display screen readers, may not work as supposed. You may flip off the setting by means of Sign Settings > Privateness > Display safety.
The app will present you a warning when you find yourself making an attempt to disable this feature, and you’ll have to click on on Affirm to finish the motion. That is to forestall you from by chance turning the function off whereas making an attempt to regulate different settings.
“We hope that the AI groups constructing methods like Recall will assume by means of these implications extra rigorously sooner or later. Apps like Sign shouldn’t should implement a “one bizarre trick” so as to preserve the privateness and integrity of their providers with out correct developer instruments,” Sign mentioned in a weblog publish.
