There’s not a “bot” that needs to attend the meeting and show up in the list of attendees thus giving away the recording of the call. Otter.ai, for instance, shows up as “Otter” (or another name) on a Zoom call when it is recording and taking notes.
If you don't like people knowing you are recording them, you probably have a consent issue.
Let me be clear: if you have a bot capturing audio in a call you have with someone in California, and you do not tell that person you are recording them, then you have committed a felony, even if you are not in California.
And what is it about you that makes you so allergic to me calling this out? I wonder why....
See, I can do that too. How does that feel? We having a good conversation here?
The way he phrased it has turned me from someone eager to discuss the potential uses of this into someone unwilling to engage with him to discuss it any further. Even if it turns out that he's absolutely 100% correct (he's not) I'll talk to someone else about it instead.
I suspect this person regularly has "conversations" where the other party suddenly becomes silent, and he misinterprets that as a "victory" instead of the other person deciding he isn't worth the trouble.
Shouldn't you be more concerned about starving children or something than my post?
See how productive of a conversation we are having when we both use these fallacies?
Sometimes the courts have sided "the stricter jurisdiction's law applies" while other times the courts have sided "the law where the recording was made applies". The federal law is not any clearer, stating one party consent is the default and states can override but offering no further guidance. I suspect this will someday be addressed in the Supreme Court.
Until that actually gets reviewed by a higher court (or more descript higher law comes about) what each regional court concludes remains the reality for cases in that region though.
I'm not a lawyer myself, I just had to spend some time with the company's regarding this topic recently ("yay" for filling in to manage internal IT on the side).
I prefer non-bot transcription tools solely because they’re not a nuisance during the meeting — they take up valuable screen real estate and provide no input during the meeting so I’d rather them be invisible.