Re: Re: Recording phone line

["Geoff H" <yahoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I could be wrong, but I believe the law states that the recording of
telephine messages is legal, as long as one or both of the parties involved
knows it is being recorded.

A while back, a senior police office in the Met was found to be recording
all telephone messages. There was a bit of a fuss at the time, but nothing
illeagl occurred because he knew the call was being recorded, even if the
other person didn't. It's only when both parties involved in the phone call
don't know that it is being recorded that the legal quagmire begins.

Geoff
----- Original Message -----
From: "domdevitto" <dom@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 9:25 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Recording phone line


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> Paul, this would be illegal, except under very specific circumstances.
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> You can record your own voice all day, but when you start recording
> the voices of others you need to be very careful not to breach a half
> dozen rather nasty illegal-intercept and data protection laws.
>
> Dom
> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Paul Gordon" <paul@...> wrote:
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>> Peeps.
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>> One of the things I've long wanted to implement is automatic
recording
>> of all telephone conversations into or out of our house. To this
end, I
>> have most of the essential parts in place: - I have reliable hook
>> detection of our landline into the HA PC, and I have an audio
interface
>> between the phone line & a line-in port on the HA PC, so all I
think I
>> need now is a piece of code to tie these together. I'm hoping this
part
>> will be quite simple...
>>
>> As you will no doubt have gathered from the above, I want to use
PC
>> based recording on my HA PC, rather than something like a
dedicated
>> cassette-based telerecorder device. This is for ease of access to
the
>> recordings, and so I have no maintenance to perform (changing a
tape for
>> instance).  I simply want to start recording whenever the phone is
>> off-hook, and stop recording as soon as it goes on-hook. I Want to
>> record audio into WAV files, with filenames indicating date &
time of
>> the recording, - and that's about it.
>>
>> I have Homeseer running on the HA PC, so I can use any of the
facilities
>> therein to manage the process, - although I don't currently run HS
>> Phone, and I don't have 2-way audio between the PC & the phone
line. I
>> also don't get caller-ID from my telco, so I don't need to do
anything
>> fancy with that.  Ideally, a nice simple script that could control
an
>> instance of an audio recording tool on the PC would be great.
>>
>> Anyone got any suggestions?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Paul G.
>>
>>
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