Did you know?
"In Texas it is perfectly legal to tape somebody
without his or her knowledge or consent," says
David Dow, a professor at the University of
Houston Law Center.
Federal privacy law does not prohibit the practice.
The federal law makes it unlawful to record
telephone conversations except in one party
consent cases which permit one party consent
recording by state law. Cell Phones and Wireless
Phones transmit conversation through the air like
a radio does. Until recently, the laws concerning
this activity was fuzzy. However, federal law
now makes it illegal to record both wireless and
cell phone conversations outside of one-party
consent. Texas Penal Code 16.02: So long as a
wire, oral or electronic communication—including
the radio portion of any cordless telephone call—
is not recorded for a criminal or tortuous purpose,
anyone who is a party to the communication, or
who has the consent of a party, can lawfully record
the communication and disclose its contents.
States of One-Party Consent:
Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, DC, Georgia, Hawaii,
Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine,
Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New
Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota,
Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina,
South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia,
West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming
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