Court Says It’s Okay To Secretly Record Conversation If Done For Legitimate Reasons

While there have been a lot of concerns lately about efforts to misuse “wiretapping” laws that forbid any recordings of people without their knowledge, it appears at least a few courts are recognizing how silly that is. Yet another court has now said that secretly recording a conversation — in this case with an iPhone — is okay, assuming there was no crime committed with the recording, and the recording was for a legitimate purpose. As the court noted:


“The defendant must have the intent to use the illicit recording to commit a tort of crime beyond the act of recording itself.”

That makes sense. The act of recording alone, shouldn’t be a criminal act, as it really depends on what is being done with the recording. And, in an age where not only is recording everything easier, but for some becoming standard, requiring permission to record all audio seems like an outdated concept.

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