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Our right to conversational privacy must include freedom from others using tech to document what we are saying without our clear opt-in consent. "Otherwise, people will self-censor, and conversation will lose its spontaneity and intimacy," EFF’s @adamdschwartz.bsky.social told @yahoofinance.com.

finance.yahoo.comWelcome to the age of listening devicesDevices that can listen and record us are becoming more popular, raising privacy concerns.

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This has already been happening. The younger generations are more "socially" conservative because anything they do will end up on the internet.

The self-censor point lands. Once people assume a conversation might be recorded without clear opt-in, the room gets quieter in ways that are hard to measure later.

The good news is that we live in a society that never takes short clips of people out of context and spends months having everyone attack them for it. These devices would indeed be very unfortunate if we were known to do that!