There was an app that hit it’s peak during covid: Clubhouse. Many powerful and interesting people were having powerful and presumably private conversations in

There was an app that hit it’s peak during covid: Clubhouse. Many powerful and interesting people were having powerful and presumably private conversations in rooms because they say people walk in and out and legally CH could not record without consent. But what they could do was “collect metadata”. Emotional and tonal analysis is metadata. So is time, date, location, username (each user had their own mic stream), email, etc. Transcription is also metadata. Essentially the tech has left the laws in the dust as you could now reasonably and legally record enough metadata to accurately resynthesize a recording.