Accounting details, sensitive credentials for sys admin use, HIPAA data, PII etc. there’s just so much crap understood to be temporarily unlocked, viewed, and then immediately deleted or locked again. Even home users shouldn’t turn this thing on, check your bank? Balance and account details now always available. Use a password manager? Whatever you looked at is likely captured.
Using it may not be legal for videoconferencing in states and countries where recording without notification is illegal.
Also, legalities aside, if there is any application that might be displaying the contents of one’s laptop webcam onscreen, that turns it into something that logs a series of snapshots of that (and then OCRs any text that the camera can see). I can see potential problems there.
Their solution is to let users filter out websites in compatible browsers. This lets them blame the user for not marking sensitive websites as such. I don’t know if native applications can also be filtered.
Of course they also filter out precious DRM protected content. You wouldn’t steal a series of JPEGs.
Accounting details, sensitive credentials for sys admin use, HIPAA data, PII etc. there’s just so much crap understood to be temporarily unlocked, viewed, and then immediately deleted or locked again. Even home users shouldn’t turn this thing on, check your bank? Balance and account details now always available. Use a password manager? Whatever you looked at is likely captured.
Using it may not be legal for videoconferencing in states and countries where recording without notification is illegal.
Also, legalities aside, if there is any application that might be displaying the contents of one’s laptop webcam onscreen, that turns it into something that logs a series of snapshots of that (and then OCRs any text that the camera can see). I can see potential problems there.
Microsoft’s solution will be to remove the feature from Enterprise versions of Windows while keeping it around for the plebs using Pro and Home
Their solution is to let users filter out websites in compatible browsers. This lets them blame the user for not marking sensitive websites as such. I don’t know if native applications can also be filtered.
Of course they also filter out precious DRM protected content. You wouldn’t steal a series of JPEGs.