What a dystopian nightmare. I don't care if you can 'opt out', we know where this leads.

Windows continues to spiral into garbage after years of ads, spying and worsening of core apps (Explorer is an unusable Electron atrocity now).

Although they should have made this crap nobody wants opt-in anyway:

"You are always in control and can choose to remove Recall completely from your device by following these steps (under “Recall as an optional component.”). With removing any feature, Windows may keep temporary copies of non-executable binaries of the feature that are eventually removed over time."

How to remove:

"Recall is an optional feature for Windows. It is available by default for devices that aren’t managed by an organization or school.

To remove Recall, type Turn Windows features on or off in the search box on your taskbar. Uncheck Recall from the dialog and restart your PC. Any snapshots that were previously saved will be deleted when Recall is removed.

To re-enable Recall, type Turn Windows features on or off in the search box on your taskbar. Select Recall from the dialog and restart your PC."

Note this particular bit:

"It is available by default for devices that aren’t managed by an organization or school."

It's absolutely fucking absurd and sickening that MICROSOFT DOES NOT SEEM TO ENABLE THIS BY DEFAULT for business workstations, but home users, who very likely don't even know how to uninstall features from their PC, are fair game...