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Processes voice recordings

processes_voice

Your app records, stores, or analyzes a person's spoken voice, whether a call, a voice memo, or a voice command.

  • scope code
  • in the registry since 1.0
  • 672 laws in 183 jurisdictions name it

What triggers it

The lint's definition. It records, stores, transcribes or analyzes human voices, including call recordings and voice messages, with or without a model anywhere in the product.

This covers a call-recording feature, a voice-command assistant, and a voicemail transcription tool.

What does not

Text a user typed themselves does not count, even if your app later reads it aloud.

Often confused with Records calls and Processes biometric data.

The law it brings into scope

The kinds of law that name this activity in the LexLint law library, with the number of laws and jurisdictions in each, as of . The examples are chosen by rule, laws in force first and the widest jurisdiction first; each section's page lists every law.

Area of lawLawsJurisdictions
Privacy law

Have a legal basis for personal data, honor people's rights over it, and report a breach.

 436 164
Cybersecurity law

Build software securely, handle reported flaws, and report incidents on a deadline.

 91 67
Communications law

Get consent before marketing, calling, recording or storing data on a device, and honor an opt-out.

 67 46
AI law

Tell people when they are dealing with an AI system or its output, and control the uses the law calls high-risk.

 59 41
Product and AI liability law

Answer in damages when defective software or an AI system causes harm.

 24 22
Scraping law

Stay within computer-access law, a site's terms, and the copyright in what is copied.

 3 3

Counterparties that usually come with it

  • a transcription or speech-recognition vendor
  • a telephony provider

A component that cannot run as documented without one of these names it in its ACTIVITIES.md under talks_to, with required: true. That party's jurisdiction then joins the run of every product that uses the component, and the finding says why it is there. A default the deployer can change is asked about, never added. Talking to a party never makes a product that party.

In a declaration

A library or framework that makes this possible enables it; an application whose shipped code does it performs it.

For a library

activities: - id: processes_voice mentioned: enables enabled: requires_configuration where: [<the module that carries it>] note: <one sentence>

For an application

activities: - id: processes_voice mentioned: performs enabled: by_default where: [<the module that carries it>] note: <one sentence: what it does, and the kind of law it attracts>

History

In the registry since version 1.0, .

In the glossary: Processes voice recordings.

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