“However, what my experiment proves is that it’s pretty much impossible for Microsoft’s AI filter to identify every situation where sensitive information is on screen and avoid capturing it.”
Microsoft pulled Recall in June over privacy concerns and brought it back with a “Filter sensitive information” setting on by default. A credit card typed into Notepad next to the words “Capital One Visa” got captured. So did a Social Security number on a loan application PDF in Edge, and a custom form that literally said “enter your credit card number below.” The filter only worked on the checkout pages of Pimoroni and Adafruit, which is the one place nobody needed it.