is it legal to record phone conversations in california all calls are made to and from our small business office
2006-12-19 06:45:35 · 4 answers · asked by FOS L 1 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Other - Electronics
You may record a phone conversation as long as all parties know that it is being recorded. If you have ever called a tech. support line, you get that voice prompt at the begining that says calls may be recorded for quality purposes. Apparently, this is sufficient notification as most companies seem to do it.
Check with your legal to be sure.
2006-12-19 13:14:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In California, everyone must consent to the recording. If you call someone and they say "No", you'll have to stop recording. Also, you'd have to get prior permission of your employees to record them. I believe that if one of them says "No", you wouldn't be able to record them just for the sake of recording them. You'd have to do the usual "training and quality purposes" routine like you hear when you call other places, but that would also require that you had training and quality control processes operating in the company, or else it would be seen as simply a way to illegally skirt the state's privacy laws.
2006-12-19 17:39:16 · answer #2 · answered by sd_ducksoup 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"California's wiretapping regulation is a "2-get at the same time consent" regulation. California makes it a criminal offense to record or listen in on any personal communication, which incorporates a private communication or telephone call, with out the consent of all activities to the communication." I understand you're in CA, yet is the guy you try to record in California?
2016-11-30 23:23:52 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is illegal to record a conversion without informing the caller that they are being recorded. I believe this is true in all 50 states.
2006-12-19 11:48:50 · answer #4 · answered by The Soundbroker 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋