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From: joel@peora.UUCP (Joel Upchurch)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Telephone Rate Hike - Pacific Bell
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Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 12:02:26 EDT
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>I read somewhere that it's legal to record from phone lines without  a
>beep  as  long  as  the  recording  device  is  coupled  to  the  line
>acoustically rather than  electronically.  In  fact,  I  suspect  that
>that's  how  telephone  answering  machines  manage to record messages
>legally without beeping periodically.  Can anyone confirm this?

        As I recall you can record a phone call as long as  one  party
        to  a call consents to it, otherwise it is a phone tap and you
        better have a court order.  That means  that  you  can  record
        your  own  phone calls, but if you record your spouses or your
        employees phone calls, without their knowledge you can get  in
        big  trouble.  I  think 60 minutes did a segment on it a month
        or so ago.  I don't think it makes a legal difference how  the
        recording  device  is  coupled.  Maybe you are thinking of the
        old phone company rules about attaching  'foreign'  equiptment
        to the telephone line.