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Watching this Apple event tout how iPhones will soon be able to record ambient audio/conversations and transcribe "high level notes" for you. It's billed as private and end-to-end encrypted, but I think the bigger harm is the normalization of always-listening devices. It's creepy and not normal.

How is this legal in PA where all parties have to be notified of recordings? Not sure how this will be permitted in work places. Especially in defense.

Presentation said audio isn’t stored at all. Transcription is live (then presumably summarized at some interval). Guessing that isn’t “recording” for purposes of those laws, but someone qualified will have to write an explainer.

Did that apply to electronically transmitted audio only (like an online meeting), or also to live audio? What if the output available to the user of the system is only a summary, not a verbatim transcript? Lots of interesting potential nuance (which I have no qualification to assess).

Pa applies to everything. Pa covers Wire, electronic, and oral communication.

Any liability for the manufacturer, or just the person operating it? I can imagine apple turning it off in single party states.