To: Terabitten
Thanks...I just looked up the "Recording Two-Way Telephone Conversations" and "Unlawful Wiretapping" in a Texas phonebook.
It states:
If your telephone conversation is being recorded, one of these conditions must exist:
1a. All parties being recorded must hear a beep or distinctive recorder tone approximately every 15 seconds, or all parties to the telephone conversation must give their prior consent to the recording of the conversation.
1b. The prior consent must be obtained in writing or be part of and obtained at the start of the recording, or
2. In lieu of 1b, the recording party can give verbal notification in a clear, unambiguous manner, which is recorded at the beginning as a part of the call.
Under certain restrictions, exemptions to these provisions exist for commercial broadcast licensees, emergency reporting systems and law enforcement authorities.
Unlawful Wiretapping
It is a crime under federal and state laws to wiretap or otherwise intercept a telephone call unless the consent of one or both of the parties actually participating in the call has been obtained. (The exceptions are properly authorized law enforcement offices acting under court order, according to state and federal law.) The penalty for illegal wire-tapping can be a fine, imprisonment, or both.
How do you think it works if the two parties are in different states that have conflicting regulations?
95 posted on
10/14/2005 2:41:00 PM PDT by
hummingbird
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To: hummingbird
The most stringent applies.
100 posted on
10/14/2005 7:49:39 PM PDT by
Sacajaweau
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