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Usually you have to at least tell someone they are being recorded, but they don't have to consent to it.

• metageek 16y ago
  That's the law in Massachusetts, but the cops don't believe it.
  • iamdave 16y ago
    They usually don't have to believe what the law is when many citizens will easily bend at the sight of officer intimidation because they don't actually know the law. Which is a shame.
  • losvedir 16y ago
    Really? All I can find[1] seems to indicate all parties need to consent: "4. The term 'interception' means to secretly hear, secretly record, or aid another to secretly hear or secretly record the contents of any wire or oral communication through the use of any intercepting device by any person other than a person given prior authority by all parties to such communication..." [1] http://www.malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartIV/TitleI/Chapter272/Section99 http://www.malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartIV/TitleI/...
    • metageek 16y ago
      If you tell them you're doing it, it's not secret.
      • losvedir 16y ago
        What about the "given prior authority by all parties" part?
        • metageek 16y ago
          Read it again. That's an exception for the "no secret recording rule"; it's not an extra requirement.
• cheald 16y ago
  Only in two-party states. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_recording_laws#Two-party_notification_states http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_recording_laws#Two-pa... In any other state, if you (as the recorder) are aware that you are being recorded (ie, you're recording your own conversation with someone else), it's legal.