I don't understand why call recording isn't a built-in features to all of the phone apps. I know the standard explanation is that it isn't legal in all locales, but there are plenty of illegal things you can do with your phone.
Anyway, I used to rely on the call recording quite heavily, and I was really pissed off, when I discovered that it doesn't work anymore, so all my recent calls are lost. This was really awkward, because knowing my calls are recorded I stopped writing down appointments or ask to repeat something I didn't hear well, because I can just replay.
Without all that stuff there's really not much point using phone at all. Except most messengers and services require you having a phone number, which is absolutely ridiculous.
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In these situations where recording is agreed by both parties, getting restricted on the individual side is frustrating.
Basically it's the proverbial technical solution to a social problem.
I remember it as a matter of consent and most resources point to it being OK as long we both parties are aware.
e.g. http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/recording-phone-calls-and-co...
[1] My first android phone would get physically disconnected from microphone input by the modem during a call
That might make it less useful for people in one-party states who want to record secretly, but it would be better than nothing.
End of the day, 90% of phone recording use cases are bad ideas, and making it moderately more difficult to do avoids alot of trouble.
I once got a call from a person threatening my life. I find it hard to justify not being able to record such a thing because of some strange hypothetical scenario about bad actors recording calls.
To be honest I can’t think of any scenario where recording your own calls would be bad. Can you give me a example?
But, have you ever had a conversation on the phone that was difficult, not your best, or otherwise problematic? Have you ever said something that you would only say to one person?
The lower the barrier, the worse people’s behavior will manifest.
Why should the fact that the conversation is held with a phone change things?
The arguments only holds if you forbid all recording.
Reductio ad absudum.
1) Low demand 2) High impact of getting it wrong (untested legal consequences?) 3) lack of a good story. IE: why can't you track what was said in another method? Ie: paper note
Call recording is legal even in 2 party consent states... with consent. Also often legal if it's to protect against a major criminal threat.
> IE: why can't you track what was said in another method? Ie: paper note
Try convicting your attacker with that.
It turns out that Georgia is one of those states. You can tape a person without their consent, and broadcast it?
This sounds like a good story, but it's written in a way that I'm expected to fill in the background.
(d) (1) Subdivision (a) does not apply to the disclosure or distribution of a confidential communication pursuant to any of the following:
A party to a confidential communication recording the communication for the purpose of obtaining evidence reasonably believed to relate to the commission by another party to the communication of a crime as specified in Section 633.5.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.x...
What? Federally call recording is legal with single party consent. 35 states and DC have single party consent.