they would like to record everything that's said in this room at times of meetings.

I can't count how many times such a thing could have been useful to me.

Boss: I need you to implement feature X for product Y by date Z.

Me: Impossible. The basic design of Y doesn't support X. Serious ground-up redesign would be needed. Because you said in the initial design meetings for Y that we would never need X.

Boss: No I didn't.

Me: Click, click.

My recorded voice: Will Y need X? If so, we need more time to lay the groundwork for it now, before it becomes an issue.

Boss' recorded voice: No, we don't need X. We need to get this to customer Q by next month, so just do this quick and dirty and get it out to them.