Snowden helped design an app that turns your old phone into a surveillance device to help solve the "evil maid" problem

What about the various laws related to recording people without their consent or knowledge? Couldn’t you get in legal trouble using an app like this in a hotel room? Is a hotel room you’re occupying given the same consideration as your home?

I guess for that matter how do laws like that affect things like dash cams or drone footage or head-mounted GoPros? Maybe since those seem to get a pass this would as well.

Maybe the laws I’m referring to only apply to very specific scenarios (e.g. recording a phone conversation), leaving everything else up in the air unless contested in court?

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