New ask Hacker News story: Wearable device that records your voice for legal defense

Wearable device that records your voice for legal defense
3 by MrBigplan | 0 comments on Hacker News.
It is illegal, in most places, to record a conversation without the other person's consent, but via definition, that doesn't include a recording of only your own voice during said conversation. I suspect this is possible via similar tech to "invisible" hearing aids that go inside the ear canal, except that our concept right here would possibly use a contact microphone instead of a regular one. Next step on our legal defense enterprise is to store the recorded voice alongside time information in an archival and unalterable medium, such as a blockchain. Before someone asks, audio can be faked well enough to fool human ears, but it is pretty damn hard to tamper with or falsify well enough to fool sound analysis. To add an even better wealth of protective evidence, we could couple this device with biological and GPS data from stuff such as Fitbit or Oura rings, also streamed in real time to an unalterable medium. The date and hour of a recording could be falsified to point an earlier time via prerecording, but can never be falsified to a point after the storage medium registering. I could go on in details, but this is the basic idea. Become immune to fraudulent accusations. Had the idea after a friend of my mother got thrown in jail for a bogus sexual harassment accusation, with no proofs. Life of an innocent man ruined. Hopefully, the judiciary works better in the US and Europe than here where I live.

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