Comment by varispeed

I would love that someone investigated why Google pulled call recording API from Android 9 onwards. Given that I was scammed by insurance companies twice over the phone and I could have lost substantial amount of money if I couldn't prove the scam, I think call recording feature is essential for a consumer to be able to protect themselves from distance selling scammers or even honest mistakes. There are other benefits like being able to record your parents or other family members and keep their voice forever or simply being able to listen again your conversation with a doctor, so you don't have to bother the clinic if you forget something about dosage etc. The official reason is that it is for privacy (oh good lord...) and that in some countries it is illegal and basic narrative is that they don't want people to secretly record others. This falls apart quickly - you can record someone secretly using your built-in phone camera and microphone, but somehow that's okay, they won't disable the camera and in my country, for example, call recording is perfectly fine. So who lobbied Google? Removing such API is not a trivial task, it takes time, planning, resources, developers and then dealing with the fallout. Who wanted people to be defenceless against phone scams?