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Comment by Spooky23 | Hacker News Reader

There’s a wide variety of bad behavior people can engage in, from breaking two party consent to making the phone a listening device.

End of the day, 90% of phone recording use cases are bad ideas, and making it moderately more difficult to do avoids alot of trouble.

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Where do you get that number from?

I once got a call from a person threatening my life. I find it hard to justify not being able to record such a thing because of some strange hypothetical scenario about bad actors recording calls.

To be honest I can’t think of any scenario where recording your own calls would be bad. Can you give me a example?

Notification of the parties is key. You always have a good reason to record a phone call.

But, have you ever had a conversation on the phone that was difficult, not your best, or otherwise problematic? Have you ever said something that you would only say to one person?

The lower the barrier, the worse people’s behavior will manifest.

I am completely comfortable with having my phone announce to everyone that "your call may be recorded". In fact, add that to caller ID data or something: you dial me, you have to hit "I agree" before the call goes through. Would shut down a heck of a lot of behavior enabled by pseudoanonymous phone calls.

Sure, I also have conversations in person that weren’t my best or were otherwise problematic. Should we prevent all audio recording from phones, too?

Pretty much this^

Why should the fact that the conversation is held with a phone change things?

The arguments only holds if you forbid all recording.

Reductio ad absudum.

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