CMV: It’s totally okay to covertly record audio from my meetings with professionals in a one-party consent state in the US
I’ve been feeling conflicted about it but overall, it just seems like if I’m in a meeting with my doctor, or my lawyer, or my trainer, so on, in a client-provider relationship where I hired them in a setting not related to my workplace, that in a state that legally allows it I feel that it should be considered normal or not weird to record audio from the meetings on my phone **without** telling the provider.
I don’t post the recordings anywhere and am not using it for nefarious or legal purposes, just referencing the recordings when it’s a complex conversation and I forget part of it and am trying to remember.
Not talking about the ethics of recording personal conversations with friends and family.
But the times I’ve been caught doing it the provider acts all weird about it. I’ll offer to stop recording and delete it but they’re like no need but it’s good to know and just tell me when you do. But why do they need to know when I’m capturing audio just for my own review?
If calls are recorded all the time and I have no expectation of my own privacy when dealing with companies, why do I need to feel guilty about it when the role is reversed? How’s it different that someone writing ultra detailed notes on a notebook which absolutely no one will care about, or someone with a photographic/great memory remembering word for word what was discussed?
Happy to award deltas and to discuss. I’m just tired of feeling conflicted when I’m choosing to do it or not. Feel free to make me feel really bad about it or sour me to the idea of ever doing it again, if this really is morally wrong.