Is it illegal to record someone?

platypus said:
You're not required to tell her you are recording her, unless you intend to use the recordings later. Eg if you wanted to use them as evidence in court for a divorce settlement, you couldn't unless you had made her explicitly aware.
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Didn;t a guy recently get arrested/put on sex offenders register for filming women he;d had sex with without their permission, he never published them one of them just found the tapes.
 
Sorry dudes I'm just off to the gym, if this is still going o nat about 4-5 ish I'll have a gander :p


save anything before he deletes it for me :D
 
Well, isn't there the fact he could've been recording for Ghosts and nul informed her? She walked into the camera. He's just filming the inside of his own house. Maybe making a fap video?

BTW OP. Way to fail :P. Also, she is able to remove your hard drive? Without breaking anything? Wonder what she is hiding? Did you get any good footage of her picking her nose?
 
matthab said:
Ahhhhhhhhhh another day in the OCuk forums. :D

You need to notify the person you are recording them. Hence why when you ring a call centre you get the message "All calls maybe monitored or recorded". This is also why the police need a warrant to do any of this kind of stuff. Its abit of a grey area and I maybe wrong.
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Anyone is allowed to record a telephone conversation without telling the other party - they are just not allowed to show it to a third party. Hence to use a recording for training purposes they need to inform you.

Sneaking into someones private room (even if it is in your house) and videoing/recording them is a different matter I think. More than likely illegal.
 
"I want a divorce!"

"why?"

"You've turned into an unloveable geek!"

"no I haven't :confused:"

*sets up hidden camera* *plays Dragon Age Origins all day, everyday*
 
I'm assuming you don't own the property that her room is in, in which case you're on very dodgy ground.

On the other hand, her taking your hard drive is theft, plain and simple, however petty it is.
 
Nothing is illegal until you get caught! Only when someone observes the illegal activity does it actually become illegal, before that it is both legal and illegal at the same time.
 
gamer_boy said:
I'm assuming you don't own the property that her room is in, in which case you're on very dodgy ground.

On the other hand, her taking your hard drive is theft, plain and simple, however petty it is.
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I doubt even if he owned the property it would be legal, for instance I doubt it would be legal to secretly record a lodger.
 
Tefal said:
Didn;t a guy recently get arrested/put on sex offenders register for filming women he;d had sex with without their permission, he never published them one of them just found the tapes.
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I don't know the story but it's always possible he did, it's a rather different situation though than simply recording a telephone conversation without telling the other person. Both may be immoral but at quite different ends of the scale.

However in this situation you may well be into a problematic area given an invasion of privacy that the wife could legitimately expect to hold. Without looking into the area in detail it would be difficult to clarify the legality of the actions but even if not illegal the evidence would be tainted - it may still be of use in a court case as they can overlook such matters but less weight is likely to be placed on it for reasons of how it was acquired.
 
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