Phone Privicy

[whotheheckami]

I wonder if anyone can help gardenpixie out? She needs to know if she has any come back against someone (the Fiddler) who taped a private telephone conversation without her knowledge some weeks ago.

She knows that he has played the tape to one other person, but does not know if he still has the tape.

Does anyone know if she can demand that he destroys the tape?

My knowledge is only about using tapes of conversations as evidence in Police matters and in thisa case I can't advise her.

Comments

[whotheheckami.livejournal.com]

That's a good reading. I'll check a few things with some contacts I've just rememebered and let everyone know

Mel

[red-cloud.livejournal.com]

I believe this is why undercover police and investigative journalists, et al, don't need any legal permission to get themselves wired for sound - they are only recording their own conversations. It's only like storing copies of someone else's emails or letters that they've sent to you.

It's what use they're put to that counts, legally.

And if you want to go the whole Strangers on a Train thing, I'll cheerfully mash some fingers in Rutland for you if you'll break a few legs in Yorkshire for me.