What happened
Plaud introduced Plaud Desktop, a PC and Mac application that records, transcribes, and summarises online meetings from various platforms, translating 112 languages and offering interactive search. Crucially, it records without requiring a bot participant and automatically detects meeting start times. Concurrently, Plaud launched the NotePin S, a wearable AI notetaker weighing 17.4g (23.2g with pin), featuring dual microphones capturing audio up to 9.8 feet for 20 continuous hours, 64GB storage, and syncing to cloud via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, priced at $179.
Why it matters
The introduction of Plaud Desktop, capable of recording online meetings without requiring a visible bot participant, significantly reduces the visibility of recording activity within meeting platforms. This creates a control gap for platform operators and IT security teams, increasing exposure to unmonitored data capture. Compliance teams face a heightened due diligence requirement for identifying and managing recordings created outside established policy workflows, as traditional indicators of recording presence are circumvented.
