Signal said today that it is updating its Windows application to prevent the capture screen from capturing, thus protecting the content shown.
The company said that this new “screen safety” configuration is enabled by default in Windows 11. Signal said this new feature is designed to protect the privacy of users of the Microsoft recovery function, which was announced last year. The memory captures the screenshots of the system continuously to remember all its activities, so it can move in time to remember what I was seeing.
While the company stops the launch of the function last year after the reaction, Microsoft begins to try it again in April through the Windows Preview Channel. Microsoft has performed the subscription function and has also added a way to falsify it at any time. Signal said that despite changes in the thesis, the characteristic still captures the content that can be sensitive.
Signal said that when he tries to take a screenshot with the new safety configuration of the enabled screen, he will only get a blank screen.
The company also warned that when the configuration is enabled, some functions, such as screen readers, may not work as planned. You can turn off the configuration Signal configuration> Privacy> Screen safety.
The application will show you a warning when you try to disable this option, and you must click confirm to complete the action. This is to avoid accidentally turning off the function while trying to adjust other configurations.
“We hope that AI teams believe systems such as retirement think through these more careful implications in the future. Applications such as Signal should not have to implement a” strange trick “to maintain the privacy and integrity of their services without the appropriate developer tools,” Signal said in a blog mail.
