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Originally Posted by shadowmite
legally in the usa you can record a call (in most states) by simply knowing that you are recording. The legal requirement is that ONE of the two parties knows.
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Negative. Careful people. You don't want a felony offense. Do your own research on where you live.
It is illegal under all jurisdictions to record calls in which one is not participating in the call. So if you place a recorder on a phone and do not participate on each call that is recorded then you are looking at potential jail time if you are tried and convicted. It is not enough that you just "know" you are secretly recording.
The U.S. federal law allows recording of phone calls and other electronic communications with the consent of at least one party to the call. A majority of the states and territories have adopted wiretapping statutes based on the federal law, although most have also extended the law to cover in-person conversations. 38 states and the D.C. permit recording telephone conversations to which they are a party without informing the other parties that they are doing so.
12 states require, under most circumstances, the consent of all parties to a conversation. Those jurisdictions are California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Washington.
It is illegal under all jurisdictions to record calls in which one is not a party.
Raging Idiot