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>You choose to turn on the feature. >The people around you have no choice at all if they are recorded or not. How's that different to literally any applicatio

• kuschku 11y ago
  It’s not very different, except usually you have to turn it on manually for every single recording. If you record without permission, it is illegal. Here a user turns it on once, and it will record every time you write a status update, and they might even forgot they turned it on – it poses a liability issue, and it leads to people being less able to find out if they are recorded or not. In the end, probably it will be the users that end up in court, not Facebook.
• talmand 11y ago
  It is no different, any application that does this makes you subject to liability depending on local laws. If it is illegal in your area to record someone without their consent and you hold up your phone in a bar while using something like Shazam you may be breaking the law. While the odds of you being prosecuted for it may seem unlikely, doesn't change the potential liability.