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Whether it's legal to record your own phone conversations depends on a lot of things and isn't a given. At least one case comes to mind where their dashcam reco
by hansvm 3y ago
Whether it's legal to record your own phone conversations depends on a lot of things and isn't a given. At least one case comes to mind where their dashcam recorded video and audio of the mechanic taking their car for a spin and causing some damage, and the fact that it recorded audio got the owner in major hot water.
To the point about recording notifications, I'm not sure, but the only potential sticking point that comes to mind is that it's a machine giving the notification rather than the people you'll be recording. Generally though, if two people are conversing and one says they'll record it then the other person is usually allowed to as well.
- lazide 3y agoIn most jurisdictions in seems to boil down to if there is an expectation of privacy. In the dashcam case, if there was an obvious warning saying it was recording audio, it probably would have been fine for instance. Same with the conversation thing - if everyone knows it’s being recorded, it’s generally fine.
- mannykannot 3y agoLogically (as if that had anything to do with it) if a mechanical notification from the first party is taken as securing de-facto consent from the second party to record any conversation that follows, and the first party is in a jurisdiction requiring two-party consent, the second party should be allowed to deduce that the first party has itself given consent for the conversation to be recorded.
- mannykannot 3y agoI don't know whether it applies in the case you mention, but being allowed to record does not generally come with a right to make public that conversation, or to protect one from libel or slander suits resulting from doing so.