I think there's a substantive difference between something you experience and recollect from the input of your own senses and something digitized, recorded, and

I think there's a substantive difference between something you experience and recollect from the input of your own senses and something digitized, recorded, and preserved in perfect form in a format that is easily shared in every detail and easily repurposed in endless ways. I do think that people should be able to record events that occur on their own properly, and even their own phone calls without consent of another person, but I worry about the implications of saying that our ability to remember events and the ability to log data are basically the same. Feels like a loophole that a lot of evil people and companies would happily jump through. Generally though, I don't really see an ethical problem with data collected strictly for an individual's personal use and I guess in theory we could have two party consent laws that acknowledge that but still offer some protections.