What triggered me as to Recall's true ulterior purpose was the fact that it resembled the software oDesk (now Upwork) made you install, which periodically took

What triggered me as to Recall's true ulterior purpose was the fact that it resembled the software oDesk (now Upwork) made you install, which periodically took screenshots and camera shots to ensure you weren't goldbricking. When it was just an application, companies could refuse to install it. They could say, nah, trust in our employees is part of our culture. When it's built in to everybody's OS, it becomes much harder to refuse to gather and use everybody's data. It's like the heat detector under everybody's desk: ostensibly it's there to measure the need to run A/C... but as long as it's there why not use it as an absenteeism detector? Plus, the data gathered is much more extensive, and much more searchable, with the proposed Microsoft solution.