Undetermined legalities aside, is there any doubt this is how personal digital assistance will trend going forward? It's just like messaging read reciepts, I want to be privy to others info, but not vice versa. Maybe that's the eventual legal compromise, these are going to be networked database, if you want to retain others info, you need to opt in yourself. If one opts out, recordings will turn into placeholder image and written transcripts.

Also, if you transcribe a conversation, but do not record the audio, is that still relevant to recording consent laws? Even if it conversation exists temperarily in some hardware buffer?