Recording question

[ryuan]

Before anyone asks, this didn't happen to me or anyone else. It's just a thought I had and wanted to know how it would work out.

Here's the scenario: you're on restaurant eating calmly with your smartphone out, which by some coincidence was set on recording audio though you weren't aware of this; now comes someone that confronts you over something or the other (the specific is not important) and at some point he says something that makes you want to go to court with him (what he said specifically is not important), and after a few minutes you leave the restaurant you find your smartphone had recorded everything.

Without regard to other factors, can you use the recording as evidence in the court, or is there some way for it to be invalidated?

 

[DresdenWinchester]

Before anyone asks, this didn't happen to me or anyone else. It's just a thought I had and wanted to know how it would work out.

Here's the scenario: you're on restaurant eating calmly with your smartphone out, which by some coincidence was set on recording audio though you weren't aware of this; now comes someone that confronts you over something or the other (the specific is not important) and at some point he says something that makes you want to go to court with him (what he said specifically is not important), and after a few minutes you leave the restaurant you find your smartphone had recorded everything.

Without regard to other factors, can you use the recording as evidence in the court, or is there some way for it to be invalidated?

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Depends on your state/country. As some places are 2-party consent states where it's illegal to record someone with out their permission. There might be other issues I'm not aware of.

 

[gibbousmoons]

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