Not quite sure what you're on about here.
In a very populous country in Asia, the authorities pull all the CVR's and FDR's and download them, just to have them read if they want to finger someone. This is not about safety at all, which was what the apparatus was designed for.
The unions there are so
ing stupid, they go on strike to rid themselves of a few foreign pilots but put up with this imbecilic nonsense.
