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by crazygringo 1265 days ago
I'm genuinely curious of Google will allow this to stay up, seeing as saving Meet recordings is a feature that belongs to the paid tier of Meet (Workspace).

Not that they'd probably justify a takedown with that, but more that it could be used to record meeting participants without their consent.

Which is actually a big deal -- all videoconferencing software I'm aware of puts up a big notice and indicator that you are being recorded, and this is for both legal and privacy reasons.

While obviously you could always use any screen recording software (like OBS or even just QuickTime) to secretly record a video meeting... I'm not sure that a tool like this, specifically advertised for recording Meets, is entirely kosher whether legally or according to Meet's TOS. (Of course IANAL.)

If I were you, I'd add ridiculously large multiple disclaimers you have to check and click through to state you agree never to record any meeting participants without their consent. And even with that, I'm not sure how long this will stay up...

But nevertheless, technologically it's a very cool tool, so congrats! :)

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People who are going to use this plugin is not Google's target audience for the paid tier.

No companies which makes a non trivial amount of money are going to use this plugin instead of buying Google's paid plan.

If you work in a company which will be going to use this plugin, get out of the company immediately and find a new job.

> it could be used to record meeting participants without their consent.

It's also possible to record a meeting inconspicuously by using literally any screen recording software. It's even built into macOS (via QuickTime), iOS (native function), and Android (native function).

At the same time, including support for undisclosed meeting recording "out of the box" doesn't seem like a good idea, it's certainly not respectful.

I don't think you read up to my fourth paragraph. ;)
You're right. Sorry, my bad.

Amusingly (or concerningly?), that is the only one I somehow missed.

:-s

Yeah surely we'll be adding disclaimers, thanks.

But I'm curious why hasn't google banned other chrome extensions that record google meets and all of them are either paid or free with some limitations, so we're not the only ones bypassing premium gsuite.