Would you stay on a sales call if you knew you were being recorded without consent?

I was on a call with a founder and they asked me to turn on my camera on Google Meet.

I said no citing that they have brought in the call recorder without my consent. I consent for voice recording and summarizing, not video capture.

He said he needed it.

I said no problem, in that case I will have to cancel and leave the meeting.

But that’s not even the interesting part.

What’s interesting is why I said no.

More and more people are joining calls with AI note-takers, silent recorders, or “meeting assistants”, often without explicitly stating it.

Even if you don’t “accept” the bot, it doesn’t really matter anymore.
If someone wants to record, they will... one way or another.

And that creates a weird imbalance:

• You’re being recorded

• You didn’t consent

• You don’t know how that data will be used, stored, or shared

Now compare that with how companies like Apple handle this.

When you call their support:

• They explicitly tell you the call is being recorded

• They control the storage and usage of that data

• And importantly, they don’t allow you to record freely. If you insist on recording, they can refuse service.

Clear ownership and consent structure.

But in B2B calls today?

None of that exists.

Anyone can:

• Record

• Transcribe

• Feed your conversation into AI

• Store it indefinitely

All without saying a word.

So the real question is: Should business conversations move toward explicit mutual consent like Apple support calls? Or is silent recording just going to become the default and everyone has to adapt?

Let me know in the comments what you think about this.