"Bad actors" are not just bank robbers with bandit masks. You are far more likely to be harmed by proper, legitimated institutions like banks, police, prosecutors, employers, schools, or border enforcement agencies, especially if you're a member of a structurally marginalized group. That is always the most important issue with corporations stockpiling data about you. Recovering from the theft of your credit card number is peanuts by comparison.

"Microsoft’s Recall feature recently made its way back to Windows Insiders after having been pulled from test builds back in June, due to security and privacy concerns...

The concern with Recall is that it’s keeping a digital record of everything you do and, no matter how secure, the record is there for bad actors to find."

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Microsoft Recall screenshots credit cards and Social Security numbers, even with the "sensitive information" filter enabled

Despite promising to filter personal data out, Recall still captures it.

^{Avram Piltch (Tom's Hardware)}