[pacala]

Persisting is benign. Actively processing, less so. Imagine stack-ranking party alignment sentiment, based on everything the subjects ever said.

[the_duke]

The processing part was implied.

My point was just: with audio, you might want to think about really recording, storing and processing everything. But if a phone can do high quality transcriptions and just send them off to government data centers, it becomes sort of a no brainer.