Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default

> We tell the operating system that every Brave tab is ‘private’, so Recall never captures it.

Without this loophole Recall could take pix of password managers and other such sensitive windows. So it doesn't seem closeable without per app exceptions.

But privacy is a bug on a school laptop used by a child. Brave could have a toggle on the feature if it wants to serve that market.

> But privacy is a bug on a school laptop used by a child.

What you're going to learn is how many people that think like this consider you to be in the same position as the child.

Your manager would say that privacy is a bug on a corporate laptop used by an employee. Luckily there are a number of countries where the legal framework doesn't let that fly.

If the law required allowing children to use their school owned laptops to browse the web without oversight or limitation, many schools could not provide them and students would lose a very valuable educational tool.

  "The whole principle (censorship) is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.”  ― Robert A. Heinlein

The opposite is true too. Infants shouldn't be handed knives because grown men need to cut their steak.

How does it help parents/teachers/children to have Microsoft spy on your children?

I have trouble thinking of a use case.

There's a limitation in the form of inaccessible domains which is, predictably, also used by employers.

No need to go all 1984 on children because those who can bypass such restrictions will figure out a way to see what they want.

Like with everything about parenting your main weapon against the evils of this world is the trust your child puts into you.

It's more like, "Only licensed chefs need pointy knives, so the logical thing to do is ban pointy knives for everyone else."

As a teacher it's "I wasn't able to monitor Tommy's screen while I was helping other students, but Tommy is struggling with the material that he usually gets easily and I'd like to know if he was on task. If not I want to bring back his focus; if so I'd like to understand what he has trouble with so I can help."

If you're thinking "just ask", unfortunately students often don't have that level of introspection.

Cigarette lighters and matches would probably be banned, or at least heavily restricted, if smoking had never been a thing.

Having passed a toddler a steak knife, it's fine. There are even practice knifes for this purpose.

(An infants hands are too small to hold a steak knife)

If we were to seriously take that advice, children wouldn't have access to laptops in the first pace, let alone "school" ones.

It would unironically be much better for everyone involved if they didn't use laptops in the first place and went back to pen and paper.

> Having passed a toddler a steak knife, it's fine.

That time. With that child. I don't think "a steak knife per toddler" is a scalable value proposition.

I disagree. Most children (including toddlers) can be taught quickly to safely handle even "scary knives" and controlled exposure to real tools with real consequences is actually high value.

You can also give infants who are ready for food meat and other real foods, just keep in mind the lack of teeth.