On 06/28/2012 01:45 PM, Mark Rejhon wrote: Hi,
> But, you know, aren't audio and video potential privacy issues too? > Especially if used during the wrong times? It's no different. (In > fact, often real-time text is more discreet at various times -- it's > quieter and shields from indiscreet sounds or images, while maintaining > real-time conversational interactivity -- and it is useful at various > moments) I have done psychological counselling face to face, by phone, by 'line-by-line" chat and by RTT-chat. When somebody with RTT is correcting a sentence, then you see what somebody first intents to say, but doesn't want to send on second thought. That not only contains an awful lot of information on the mindset of the person you are talking to, it also is information the other didn't want to share. (And the mere fact that that person didn't want to share it, is important information too.) So I can't rank RTT, audio and video from a privacy point of view, imho RTT introduces a different kinds of privacy issues. But I do see a *big* privacy issue with RTT and I don't think that when you enable Audio or Video, RTT should be enabled automatically too. Winfried