[nerdsniper]

There’s no liability or exposure for recording non-consensually. It’s a public space. There’s not even an edge case. If a random member if the public could walk into the drive-thru (which they can) then anything can be recorded without notification or consent.

Edit: Another commenter has made me aware that some states do ban non-consensual audio recordings in public: https://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/massachusetts-recording-law

The laws prohibiting these recordings have neither been upheld nor overturned by the US Supreme Court.

[exegete]

A restaurant drive thru is private property open to the public. I think there may be a legal difference there.

[nerdsniper]

There's generally not been held to be any difference for the purposes of expectation of privacy. If it's open to the public, the expectation is that anyone could overhear you.

[mixdup]

>There’s no liability or exposure for recording non-consensually. It’s a public space.

That is not how wiretapping laws work in every state.

[flimflamm]

Creating a database of recordings without user being able to know/influence is clearly violation of GDPR IF there is PII. That's going to be costly for BK.

[nerdsniper]

GDPR only exists in Europe. Are they doing this there too?