AI recording wearables are quietly listening to everyone in Silicon Valley

Well, Silicon Valley is in California, and California is a two-party consent state, so if they have the things recording when they’re on a phone call or videoconference without first getting the other people there to all okay it, they’re breaking the law.

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The rules around recording permission differ by state. California’s wiretapping law requires everyone in a confidential conversation to give explicit consent before being recorded in situations where there’s a “reasonable expectation of privacy.”

“You could potentially be subject to criminal penalties if you record a conversation and all parties haven’t consented,” said Catherine Crump, a technology law expert at UC Berkeley.

Yup.

Those building AI recording devices hope there’s a gray area. Patel said his Buddi device transcribes but does not record audio for that exact reason.

I guess that will be an interesting court case when it finally comes up.