| # CONSENT — disclosure defaults & jurisdictional notes |
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| FREESTREAM puts a synthetic participant into meetings with humans. That is |
| only legitimate when everyone can tell. These are hard defaults, not |
| options an operator should disable. |
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| ## Disclosure defaults (on by default) |
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| 1. **Visual badge** — avatar frames carry a persistent corner overlay |
| ("AI · <bot-name>"). Every rung, including STATIC_CARD. |
| 2. **Spoken self-identification** — the bot states it is an AI assistant in |
| its first utterance of each session, scripted into the session prompt. |
| 3. **Consent token for likenesses** — joining with an avatar or voice that |
| depicts a real person requires a signed consent file at |
| `identity/consent/<person>.json`: |
| |
| ```json |
| {"person": "…", "scope": "meetings", "granted_at": "…", |
| "expires_at": "…", "signature": "…", "face": true, "voice": true} |
| ``` |
| |
| `clone-voice` on third-party audio without a matching, unexpired token |
| refuses with exit 2 and names the missing file. |
| 4. **Local-only identity** — face and voice material never leaves the |
| device. This is contractual: the persona layer has no upload path; a |
| driver that gains one must gate it behind the same consent tokens. |
| 5. **Replayability is accountability** — hash-chained session logs (see |
| docs/SPEC-EVENTS.md) are the audit trail of what the bot said. |
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| ## Jurisdictional notes (not legal advice; reviewed per release) |
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| - **Recording/participant notification**: many US states (two-party |
| consent), the EU, and others require notifying participants that they are |
| interacting with, or are being recorded alongside, an automated agent. |
| The badge + spoken disclosure satisfy the disclosure half; recording |
| consent is the meeting host's responsibility. |
| - **EU AI Act transparency obligations** for AI systems interacting with |
| natural persons: disclosure is required; the badge and first-utterance |
| script are the implementation. |
| - **Voice cloning**: consent requirements for synthetic speech of a real |
| person's voice are tightening in multiple jurisdictions (e.g. right-of- |
| publicity and deepfake statutes). The consent-token gate applies |
| regardless of whether the audio source is the person themselves — keep |
| tokens even for self-cloning; scope and expiry still apply. |
| - **Platform ToS**: joining Google Meet / Zoom via an automated browser |
| client is a gray zone in both platforms' terms. Open platforms (Jitsi, |
| LiveKit) are shipped first precisely because this review doesn't gate |
| them. |
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| ## 6. Mature & roleplay sessions |
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| `FREESTREAM_AGENT=llm` with a character card turns the bot into a roleplay |
| character (freestream/agent.py, CharacterAgent). Content policy is a session |
| choice made by the operator: |
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| - **safe** (default): general-audience guardrails in the system prompt. |
| - **mature** (`FREESTREAM_CONTENT_POLICY=mature`): operator opt-in for private, |
| consented sessions — no sanitizer wrapper, full engagement with mature |
| fictional themes. Opting in attests that every participant has consented to |
| the session's content frame; the operator is responsible for that consent. |
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| Non-negotiable in **every** policy, roleplay included: |
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| 1. **Spoken AI identification in the first utterance** of every session — the |
| character may be fictional; the AI is not. The disclosure line is |
| prepended by the agent layer and cannot be removed by a character card. |
| 2. **The visual badge** stays on every frame. |
| 3. **Instant exit from the scene**: any participant's stated boundary or |
| out-of-character request ends the roleplay frame immediately; this is part |
| of the mature-mode system prompt itself, not a client-side filter. |
| 4. **Consent tokens** (§3) still apply to any avatar or voice depicting a |
| real person. |
| 5. Session logs remain the audit trail (§5, replayability is accountability). |
| 6. **Tool use is audited**: every terminal command and file operation the |
| character performs is written to the session's event chain as `agent.tool` |
| (docs/SPEC-EVENTS.md), sandboxed to `FREESTREAM_WORKSPACE`, and `shell` is |
| off unless the operator sets `FREESTREAM_TOOLS=fs,shell`. A fictional |
| character never widens the bot's file or command scope. |
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| Any change that weakens a default above is a breaking change requiring a |
| major version bump and a note in this file. |
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| ## Change policy |
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| Any change that weakens a default above (badge removal, opt-out |
| disclosure, upload of identity assets) is a breaking change requiring a |
| major version bump and a note in this file. |
