[mountainb]

One one hand, maybe it's good to have better searchable records, even if it's hard to quantify the benefit.

On the other hand, now all your meetings produce reams of computer searchable records subject to discovery in civil and criminal litigation, possibly leading to far worse liability than would have been possible in a mostly email based business.

[DennisP]

Maybe don't do crimes?

If the technology provides a major boost in productivity to ethical teams, and is useless for unethical teams, that kinda seems like a good thing.

[mountainb]

I guarantee you that every company you have ever worked for has committed crimes and incurred various forms of potential civil liability.

[DennisP]

I doubt that, but even if you're right it doesn't change my point: if you're not willing to stop doing that, you'll be less productive than the firms that are willing to operate legally and ethically.

And if in some industry it's really not possible to do business without committing crimes, then let's reform the criminal code to something reasonable.