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From: sgard@homxc.UUCP (S.GARDNER)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Recording calls
Message-ID: <1845@homxc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-Oct-87 09:28:27 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 23 09:28:27 1987
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Summary: If you are recording a call you'd better BEEP


In article <8710211927.AA27985@csib.CSI.COM>, lgold@csib.UUCP (Lynn Gold) writes:
> As long as ONE of the parties involved in the telephone conversation
> knows that the call is being recorded, it's perfectly legal to record
> the conversation.  In other words, if I feel like taping you, it's okay
> because *I* know I'm taping you.
>
  WRONG....
  Quoted directly from the New Jersey Bell Tel Book (under Consumer
  Responsibilities)
  Recorded calls require a beep tone.
  If you hear a short "beep" tone on your telephone about every
  15 seconds, it means that the that the person with whom you
  are talking is recording your conversation. Use of a recorder
   for recording 2 way conversations is permitted only when the
  recorder is connected physically to the telephone line through
  recorder-connector equipment which contains the "beep" tone.
  End quote
  
  The rest of the statement basically says that you can request the
  person not to record the call, which will be confirmed by the removal
  of the beep tone on the line. Also, certain emergency reporting systems
  that record the calls (police and fire depts) do not have to have
  the beep tone.
 
> Re: playing someone's voice over the air -- THEN you MUST have either
> verbal or written consent (the former is often done by taping someone
> saying it's okay to use their voice over the air) in order to do so.
>
  And you don't have to have the beep tone on that call. The FCC allows
  calls to be played live and/or recorded for playback without the beep
  tone. (The tone generator in the recorder-connector is disconnected).
  
> --Lynn Gold
> Public Affairs Director
> KFJC-FM

  Sanford Gardner
  AT&T Bell Labs
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