Re:OTranscribe: A free and open tool for transcribing audio ...
by hansvm on Friday August 09, 2024 @01:29PM
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Two/all-party consent are hacky workarounds for the actual harm being inflicted (valid goals including not having your microwave inform Google's ad servers, not recording out-of-context jokes as evidence to imprison people, ... -- invalid goals caught up in the collateral damage include topics like the current one about hearing issues (note that a sufficiently accurate transcription service has all the same privacy problems 2-party consent tries to protect against, maybe more since it's more easily searchable)).
I'd be in favor of some startup pulling an Uber or AirBnB and blatantly violating those laws to the benefit of the deaf or elderly if it meant we could get something better on the books.
I'd be in favor of some startup pulling an Uber or AirBnB and blatantly violating those laws to the benefit of the deaf or elderly if it meant we could get something better on the books.