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RE: Re: Recording phone line



OK, let's puts this particular chestnut to bed once & for all....

http://tinyurl.com/9en95

Paul G.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Geoff H
> Sent: 12 August 2007 09:00
> To: UKHA Group
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: Recording phone line
>
> 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
>
>
> >
> > Paul, this would be illegal, except under very specific
> circumstances.
> >
> > 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:
> >>
> >> Peeps.
> >>
> >> 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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