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Maryland lawmakers are evaluating potential changes to the all-party consent recording statute.

Experts highlighted privacy risks, observer effects and growing concerns over AI-manipulated audio.

Advocates of the current statute argue all-party consent provides essential privacy and safeguards.

Others seek expanded exceptions for evidence in criminal cases.

Maryland House lawmakers considered Tuesday the possibility of sponsoring legislation to chip away at Maryland’s all-party consent recording statute.

“The fundamental question that’s presented to you as legislators is, do we value communicative privacy, and, if we do, how are we going to protect it?” David Gray, a professor at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law , asked at an Annapolis hear

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