"Our team is driven by a relentless desire to empower people through the transformative potential of AI and we see great utility in Recall and the problem it can solve," Microsoft Corporate Vice President for Windows and Devices Pavan Davuluri wrote on Friday. "For people to get the full value out of experiences like Recall, they have to trust it."

After weeks of withering security and privacy criticisms, Microsoft has vastly scaled back Recall, its ambitions for its AI-enabled silent recording feature.

Following weeks of criticism online, Microsoft is building safeguards to give Windows users more control over how the AI feature works.