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Re:Phone conversations with law enforcement can be recorded ... by joering2 on Monday April 15, 2024 @08:28PM (#40047146)
Honestly I always take "This call may be recorded" as two way consent :) one time someone was referring to person with hard to pronounce name and I said "that's fine I will play it back". Person responded: "wait, are you recording? I didn't give you my consent". To which I said yes you did, when I called your line answered with announcement that this call can be recorded. He wasn't too happy :)
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Re:Phone conversations with law enforcement can be recorded ... by PeterisP on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @06:12AM (#40050266)
It's a bit tricky, since "this call may be recorded" often is played only to you before connecting to the other person, so technically this announcement was not made to them.
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Re:Phone conversations with law enforcement can be recorded ... by smeej on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @06:53AM (#40050509)
Their line helpfully tells you in advance "this call may be recorded." Great! Looks like permission to me! Record I shall! If they object to the call's being recorded, they ought to take that up with whomever controls their phone lines.
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Re:Phone conversations with law enforcement can be recorded ... by riskable on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @10:05AM (#40052046)
If you're calling a corporation (or they called you) then it's the corporation that's the legal entity being recorded... Not the person on the other end of the phone.
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Re:Phone conversations with law enforcement can be recorded ... by PeterisP on Thursday April 18, 2024 @05:10AM (#40074307)
People have separate rights even if they are employees, and wiretapping laws apply to recording people - like, the company recording their own calls can easily be a violation of wiretapping laws if they don't properly inform their employees.
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Re:Phone conversations with law enforcement can be recorded ... by MaxBarraclough on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @06:20AM (#40050311)
There are 2 different ambiguities there:

1. Ambiguous may, which could refer to permission or to possibility

2. Doesn't specify which party is permitted to do the recording/might be doing the recording

Makes me wonder why that phraseology is so widespread. Why not use We might record this call?

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