RE: OT - Recording Phone Calls

["Timothy Morris" <timothy.morris@xxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Gordon [mailto:paul_gordon@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 17 May 2001 12:21
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] OT - Recording Phone Calls
>
>
> It's my understanding that the legal requirement is that at least
> one party
> to the conversation must be aware of any recording of that
> conversation. It
>  >is< therefore completely legal to record >your<
telephone
> conversations,
> and you don't >have< to tell the other party.
>
> It becomes illegal only when none of the parties to the call are
> aware the
> call is being recorded, - the idea is to make phone tapping illegal,
but
> personal recording legal.
>
> I believe Tony Benn recorded every telephone conversation he was
> ever party
> to in this way....
>
> This was my understanding of the legislation as it stood a few
> years ago, so
> I guess things may have changed... (Alternatively, I suppose I
> could just be
> completely wrong!)
>
No you are right Paul. There's a lot of bollocks talked about this. EVERY
investment bank, b2b stock broker, pension fund, insurance company etc in
the City of London records every line going in and out of the dealing room
in case of dispute, and to give the regulators something to trawl through.
If I'd have given you my direct line number at the office, and you used it
to call me, then the call would have been recorded. I'd have been aware
that
the call was recorded, but you would have not, and that was what made it
legal.

Tim.




Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/