Posted by Long John on 08/04/06 07:47

"Nigel Brooks" <nbrooks@msn.com> wrote in message
news:4hi636F1ruvjiU1@individual.net...
> It follows that if it is permissable to consensually record a conversation
> made over the wire - it is also permissable to record a face to face
> conversation consensually.
>
> There is far more of a privacy interest in communications conducted by
> telephone than there is in a face to face confrontation.
>
> The whole point of my post is that the legality of a covert consensual
> recording depends entirely on the jurisdiction you are in and there is no
> blanket authorization or prohibition.

Here in the USA if the doctor was unaware he/she was being recorded,
then it would NOT be consensual...it would be a covert act, intending to
deliberately make a recording without the knowledge or consent...

You can't give "Informed Consent" if you don't know you're being recorded...
The courts in the USA have held this to be true and have awarded substatial
damages to the victims ...

Are we done with this topic yet, folks..?

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