Is it illegal to record someone?

Only if you intend on using to recordings.

If they were for your information and not made publicly available there isn't a problem really albeit it is in bad taste :D
 
^^^^Rubbish.

You are confusing privacy laws with telecommunication laws, it is fine to record a phone call in which you are a party, as long as it is not then disclosed to a third-party.
 
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Morlock said:
^^^^Rubbish.
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Show otherwise?


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ugh edit.

Yes its possible I am.

I think the grey area is you can't record people on their private property, when the private property is your private property as well I would be curious where that falls.
 
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AHarvey said:
Because being bitter over something isn't worth it, I've seen far too many people self destruct over something like this.

Split everything down the middle, keep it amicable and move on.

I know its easier to say than do, but hating, revenge and bitterness won't help anything. They move on and you are left with years of ****!
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I wouldn't be bitter about it or self destruct. but why should she get it easy for being easy? If i have some leverage in the split states, and the breakup isn't (directly) my fault, then I'd take whatever i could so I'm set up as best i can for the next future Mrs. B@

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People have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their own bedroom and it's certainly no surprise she is divorcing you given your activities in this thread. Both the Human Rights Act and the Sexual Offences act cover recordings like this.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/42/section/67

67Voyeurism E+W+N.I.

(1)A person commits an offence if—

(a)for the purpose of obtaining sexual gratification, he observes another person doing a private act, and

(b)he knows that the other person does not consent to being observed for his sexual gratification.

(2)A person commits an offence if—

(a)he operates equipment with the intention of enabling another person to observe, for the purpose of obtaining sexual gratification, a third person (B) doing a private act, and

(b)he knows that B does not consent to his operating equipment with that intention.

(3)A person commits an offence if—

(a)he records another person (B) doing a private act,

(b)he does so with the intention that he or a third person will, for the purpose of obtaining sexual gratification, look at an image of B doing the act, and

(c)he knows that B does not consent to his recording the act with that intention.

(4)A person commits an offence if he instals equipment, or constructs or adapts a structure or part of a structure, with the intention of enabling himself or another person to commit an offence under subsection (1).

(5)A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable—

(a)on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or both;

(b)on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years.
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I certainly wouldn't want to be arrested for that.
 
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Energize said:
People have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their own bedroom and it's certainly no surprise she is divorcing you given your activities in this thread. Both the Human Rights Act and the Sexual Offences act cover recordings like this.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/42/section/67



I certainly wouldn't want to be arrested for that.
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Is it the same if he didn't do it to "get off" as such?
 
Gornall said:
Is it the same if he didn't do it to "get off" as such?
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He wouldn't be convicted of it, but the point I was making is that he could potentially be arrested and charged with the sexual offence and end up in court for it if his wife accuses him, it was a very stupid thing to do.
 
Energize said:
People have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their own bedroom and it's certainly no surprise she is divorcing you given your activities in this thread. Both the Human Rights Act and the Sexual Offences act cover recordings like this.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/42/section/67



I certainly wouldn't want to be arrested for that.
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I'm not saying what he did was legal, but I don't think he's committed an offence under that section, since there was no intention for sexual graification for himself or anyone else - was done (clumsily / stupidly) to determine fidelity.
 
Thanks for the very interesting replies people.

To clarify, it was an mp3 player that could record sound only and was placed under the bed (obviously I wasn't discrete enough or ignorantly thought she wouldn't happen to look that far under the bed that night...). I was ideally wanting to catch her chatting on the phone either to her friends explaining why she was divorcing, or to her possibly phantom lover.

It's the marital home, in the bedroom that we shared until she forced me into the spare bedroom when she returned after three weeks away in the huff, no idea where (and incidentally turned up with four police in tow claiming I'd denied her entry to the house....yes, keys were in the locks front and back but she didn't even try to phone the house/mobile and I was watching a film at high volume worst luck..).

She was moody for months, initially it was over housework but even when I did a lot more she was still the same, and she just wouldn't talk to me about things.. Even now I don't know why she's divorcing me, I suspect it's because I'm 'selfish' and didn't show enough affection...her perception, not mine, but then it's her reality at the end of the day.

Her long term coldness (no 'intimacy' for five months) does suggest to me she's seeing someone, and she's bought some very nice underwear of late including time away from me..

Ultimately paranoia probably got the better of me, I shouldn't have done it, but then you do weird things under stress when you get no information.

So...we're pretty sure she could press charges on this then, on invasion of privacy grounds? And I want my flippin' hard drive back, I don't have a computer any more!!!
 
Tafkap said:
Thanks for the very interesting replies people.

To clarify, it was an mp3 player that could record sound only and was placed under the bed (obviously I wasn't discrete enough or ignorantly thought she wouldn't happen to look that far under the bed that night...). I was ideally wanting to catch her chatting on the phone either to her friends explaining why she was divorcing, or to her possibly phantom lover.

It's the marital home, in the bedroom that we shared until she forced me into the spare bedroom when she returned after three weeks away in the huff, no idea where (and incidentally turned up with four police in tow claiming I'd denied her entry to the house....yes, keys were in the locks front and back but she didn't even try to phone the house/mobile and I was watching a film at high volume worst luck..).

She was moody for months, initially it was over housework but even when I did a lot more she was still the same, and she just wouldn't talk to me about things.. Even now I don't know why she's divorcing me, I suspect it's because I'm 'selfish' and didn't show enough affection...her perception, not mine, but then it's her reality at the end of the day.

Her long term coldness (no 'intimacy' for five months) does suggest to me she's seeing someone, and she's bought some very nice underwear of late including time away from me..

Ultimately paranoia probably got the better of me, I shouldn't have done it, but then you do weird things under stress when you get no information.

So...we're pretty sure she could press charges on this then, on invasion of privacy grounds? And I want my flippin' hard drive back, I don't have a computer any more!!!
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It certainly sounds like invasion of privacy, given that it was - once she'd forced you out - basically "her" room.

Not going to comment on the ins and outs of the lack of ins and outs and so on, as we really don't have enough information to know what's going on between the two of you.
 
mp3 recorder wont land you in anything :/ ignore her threats

Stop letting her get power over you. If she wants a divorce, she can sleep in the spare room - grow a pair man...
 
attempting to record her talking with her lover in her bedroom, could definitely be construed as some sort of sexual thing and royally screw him.
 
Has she officially asked for divorce? Assuming you want it too and she hasn't, can you not file for it first, stating cheating or something as reason, which means she cannot get any of your money?

Just thinking out loud really; not a subject I am au fait on.
 
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