September 04, 2003
Turn your tongue one hundred times before speaking.
Posted by bopuc at September 4, 2003 01:45 PM
Smart Mobs - Cell Phone Recording May Breach Privacy
Folks are going ape about cellphones with call-recording features. Privacy this and privacy that.
On the above linked entry I commented:
Very simple: never say anything that you will regret. What's the big deal? The issue here is not privacy, it is discretion. The person recording your conversation is the person you are having the conversation with in the first place. When I have conversation with you via email, we both have records of it. Same for IM, or weblog commenting/trackbacks.
I wish I had recordings, and transcripts, of every phone call I ever was involved in. Not for legal issues, or blackmail, but for a record of memories and ideas and people.
and then further added:
if you cannot say things you won't regret, don't regret the things you say.