The nsa doesn’t need recall to gather signals. They can gather higher fidelity data directly as text, network traffic. If the historical data is what concerns you, that assumes the nsa wants to sneak in and then sneak out, but they will just stay there forever. Why only 3 months when you could stay forever.
It’d be so much easier to have recall store the data and then have the processor power do the AI analytics on the data.
You also fail to remember the past. Microsoft has a history of changing security settings with updates. Just because the data is stored locally just now does NOT mean that in a few updates time that they won’t change it.
If you genuinely cannot see that it is the slow introduction of powerful NSA surveillance tech, it just means you don’t know Microsoft enough. NSAKey and Prism - Windows has always been about NSA.
This particular surveillance software is leaps better than anything which has become before it, because now they can make the users computers do all the processing and storage. It is vastly superior than their other techniques in so many ways than the methods you mentioned.
Another thing you seem to mix up is that why would NSA have to do all the hard work to surveil system like you mentioned? They can simply hop on to the connections Windows makes to it’s own Microsoft servers. In the same way that AT&T historically had a NSA room in their premises which the entire network went through.
