I understand that stock-brokers routinely record all incoming calls because
they provide their only legal standing that someone has asked for shares to be
bought or sold.
Does anyone know whether there's a routine warning given, or those little
beeps every 30 seconds, that are supposed to tell people?
Also, of course, on the journalistic angle.
What happens when someone phones a talkback host, who puts the conversation to
air, where it is recorded all over the country ...? Now that will occupy the
legal fraternity for a while won't it!
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Stewart Fist - writer and columnist
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