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by grendelt 619 days ago
A number of states have laws where you must disclose if the call is being recorded. I pointed this out to a former supervisor that was using otter.ai to record and transcribe calls he would make with potential leads and conference contacts. He said that law didn't apply in the state of our home-office. I told him it applies on calls made to subjects in other states. He disagreed. Not a lawyer, but I don't think that's how it works.

And something like this... yikes. Sure, boss, you're not doing eyeball tracking, but all they would have to do is install this on a work computer and just ask AI for a percentage of time not directly spent hammering out code and pay you piecemeal per keystroke or something truly awful. (and the webcam module is coming later, I'm sure.) The future is dystopian.
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eightysixfour 619 days ago
These are called one-party vs two(/all)-party consent states, states that are one-party only require a single party in the conversation to consent to being recorded. When the call is across state lines, the ECPA is the federal law, which only requires the consent of one-party, although in theory you could take them to court in the state which had an all-party rule. In general it is considered "nice" to ask, but the court case across state lines probably isn't going to go in favor of the person with the complaint.

There are far more one-party states, 37, then two-party.

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SparkyMcUnicorn 619 days ago
IANAL. I asked a lawyer about this and they said that recording a phone call from a one-party consent state to someone in any other state is typically legal without consent, as long as the the person recording is on the call.

Personally, I think it's courteous to at least inform that it's being recorded, legality aside.

> typically the law applies to the state where the recording is made.

https://recordinglaw.com/united-states-recording-laws/one-pa...

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