Re: Recording of Telephone Calls.

Justin Sullivan (js@justnet.com.au)
Thu, 01 Oct 1998 11:20:17 +1000

At 09:29 1/10/98 +1000, you wrote:
>However, I've since been told by an equally prominent lawyer that this is
>wrong under the (newer?) existing act. The shift seems to have been from
the
>protection of privacy, just to the mechanical fact of recording a
conversation
>without the other party being informed.

I think there may be a different interpretation of the law depending on how
the conversation was in fact recorded.

IANAL, so seek your own advice etc, but my understanding is recording
directly from the phone (e.g. attached suction cap, electronic device
directly connected to the phone line) may not be legal without informing
the other party. However I believe if you have some sort of ambient
recording in the room, and happen to be using speaker phone at the time,
this is acceptable (even if the remote party is recorded too).

It would be nice to get some confirmation of this from anyone who *is* in
fact a lawyer :-)

JS

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