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my understanding is that anyone can record any visual or auditory info from any public place (in the US)

• pbhjpbhj 14y ago
  Unless you use a telephone to do it or are using a telephone when you're being recorded? I understand that making a recording of a phone call without notification is strictly disallowed in many states legislation? (eg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_recording_laws#United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_recording_laws#United...)
  • superuser2 14y ago
    Telephone systems are a public place? If I'm walking down the sidewalk talking on my phone, overhearing my voice is not a violation of privacy.
    • njharman 14y ago
      Think point is. Unless that voice is carried over telecommunications network to, say central processing center.
    • pbhjpbhj 14y ago
      >overhearing my voice is not a violation of privacy // But we're talking about recording your voice. Which I think is a violation of my privacy vs just listening to me passively - now that may not be enshrined in any law but then the law doesn't IMO [exclusively?] dictate what is moral.