Microsoft Corp. has announced upgrades for Recall, an artificial intelligence feature that creates a record of everything users do on their PCs, following criticism that the tool created an attractive target for hackers.

I’m excited because I think the security community is going to get how much we’ve pushed [into Recall].” One of Microsoft’s first big changes is that the company isn’t forcing people to use Recall if they don’t want to.

Recall, which takes advantage of advanced Neural Processing Units (NPUs) in new Windows PCs, was announced in May as the flagship feature in Copilot+ PCs from Microsoft and other computer makers. The first Copilot+ PCs were released in June without Recall, pending future software updates.