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Recording Consent

No consent mechanism for recording meeting participants — legal risk proportional to adoption.

Recording Consent

Status: Draft Author: Ryan Nel Date: 2026-05-01

Problem

Users can start a live recording with no consent mechanism for other meeting participants. In many jurisdictions (EU, California, Illinois), recording a conversation without all-party consent is illegal. WordLoop currently provides no disclosure UI, no consent collection, and no legal guidance. A user recording a Zoom call through their microphone may unknowingly violate recording consent laws. The risk falls on both the user and the platform.

Appetite

1–2 weeks. The solution is likely a pre-recording disclosure screen with configurable text, not a full consent-collection platform. Legal review of the disclosure language is the long pole.

Why Now

Live recording ships without this, and users will use it immediately. Legal risk is proportional to adoption — every recording made without a consent mechanism increases exposure. This should ship alongside or very shortly after the recording feature.

Backplane

No pod-to-pod event routing — WebSocket push is constrained to sticky sessions, blocking horizontal scaling.

Data Retention & Deletion

No cascade-delete path for meetings — audio, embeddings, and derived artefacts accumulate with no erasure flow.

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