While corporations record you, Google makes your life harder

In this surveillance capitalism world, corporations obtain as much information on you as possible, and make huge profits from it.

One of the most important protections 'persons' and 'consumers' have is the ability to document communication with either authorities or corporations, where in Australia the two apparently separate entities have merged into a corporation aggregate called the 'Australian Government', whereas before it was the 'Commonwealth of Australia', but that's another topic altogether.

While corporations record your conversations with them, for 'quality and assurance purposes', where in many cases there is no 'opt-out', you (the serf) in many 'jurisdictions' are apparently not allowed to record them.

In Australia, the authorities are corrupt to the core and lie to you.

The police lie to the people, they lie to them a LOT!

https://corpau.blogspot.com/2020/03/australian-police-lied-on-use-of-ai.html

https://corpau.blogspot.com/2015/05/sacked-afp-officer-we-lie-to-members-of.html

When speaking with the authorities you MUST have some sort of documented proof of your interaction with them, because if your conversation's contents are required for legal purposes the chances that the court will be deceived are very high.

We therefore recommend Android phones with automatic call recording phone apps.

We do not recommend the purchase and use of Apple devices.

See article from phonearena.com of the headline:

Google will put an end to third-party call recording apps soon 

There are tons of call recorder apps on the Google Play Store, and if your phone doesn't come with one built-in, you can easily download one. But soon — or to be more precise — on May 11th, 2022, Google will kill these third-party call recording apps for good (via Android Authority).

As Reddit user NLL-APPS first noticed — and Google also mentioned in a developer webinar —, on May 11th, a new Play Store policy will come into effect, which won't allow apps on the Google Play Store to use Accessibility Service for call recording.

As Google stated, "The Accessibility API is not designed and cannot be requested for remote call audio recording."

For years now, due to privacy and litigation nightmares, Google has been trying to put an end to these call recorder apps, by blocking the conventional channels and APIs, through which they operated. As a last resort, the developers of these applications have begun accessing the call recording feature via Android's Accessibility Service.

We should note that Google's change will affect only the third-party call recording apps uploaded to the Play Store. If your phone comes with a built-in call recording feature in its dialer, you will still be able to use it.

It is very likely that Google will soon begin scrubbing apps that don't comply with its new Accessibility Service policies from the Play Store. It will be curious to see if the developers of call-recording apps will look for and find other loopholes.