Privacy, consent and compliance
Recording laws, GDPR and professional confidentiality. Background reading, not legal advice.
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- Privacy, consent and complianceAI notetakers and attorney–client privilegeWhat sending client conversations to an AI service can mean for confidentiality and privilege, what bar guidance says, and questions to put to counsel.
- Privacy, consent and complianceAI notetakers and HIPAA: what to ask before using oneWhere protected health information goes with each kind of AI notetaker, what a business associate agreement covers, and what to settle before recording.
- Privacy, consent and complianceCan my employer record meetings? The employee's sideCan my employer record meetings I am in? Notice rules in the US, the ICO's guidance in the UK, GDPR rights to access and object, and works councils in Europe.
- Privacy, consent and complianceHow to ask for consent to record a meeting (with scripts)Words to use when you record a meeting — at the start of a call, in the calendar invite and by email — and what to do when someone says no.
- Privacy, consent and complianceLabelling AI-written meeting notes: the EU AI Act's transparency rulesWhat Article 50 of the EU AI Act asks of AI-generated text, from when and of whom, and why labelling AI meeting notes is good practice whatever the law says.
- Privacy, consent and complianceOne-party and two-party consent: the US states, explainedWhich US states require everyone's consent to record a conversation, with the statute for each, the nuances that matter, and what to do on a multi-state call.
- Privacy, consent and complianceRecording calls and meetings in France: the law in plain termsFrench law on recording calls and meetings: article 226-1 of the Code pénal, the CNIL's rules for recording at work, and the GDPR on what you do afterwards.
- Privacy, consent and complianceRecording calls and meetings in Ireland: the law explainedIrish law lets a party to a call record it, or consent to its recording. What the 1983 and 1993 Acts say, how the GDPR applies, and what the DPC expects.
- Privacy, consent and complianceRecording calls and meetings in Italy: the law explainedItalian law on recording calls and meetings: how courts treat a participant's recording, article 617-septies on spreading it, and the GDPR and workplace rules.
- Privacy, consent and complianceRecording calls and meetings in Spain: the law explainedSpanish law on recording calls and meetings: the Constitutional Court's rule for participants, article 197 of the Código Penal, and the GDPR and LOPDGDD.
- Privacy, consent and complianceRecording calls and meetings in the UK: the law in plain termsWhen you can record a call or meeting in the UK: the Investigatory Powers Act, business-recording regulations, UK GDPR and the ICO's guidance, in plain terms.
- Privacy, consent and complianceRecording calls in Brazil: what the law saysRecording calls in Brazil: the participant exemption in Lei 9.296, the STF's rulings on recordings as evidence, and what the LGPD asks when you record for work.
- Privacy, consent and complianceRecording calls in California: the law requires everyone's consentCalifornia requires every party's consent to record a confidential call or meeting. Penal Code 632 and 632.7, the $5,000 civil claim, and cross-state calls.
- Privacy, consent and complianceRecording calls in Florida: the law requires everyone's consentFlorida requires all parties' prior consent to record a call or private conversation. What section 934.03 says, the privacy test, and the penalties.
- Privacy, consent and complianceRecording calls in Germany: why everyone must agreeGerman criminal law protects the spoken word, so recording a call without the others' agreement can be an offence. What §201 StGB says and how GDPR adds to it.
- Privacy, consent and complianceRecording calls in Illinois: the eavesdropping law, and voiceprints under BIPAIllinois bans secretly recording a private conversation without everyone's consent. What 720 ILCS 5/14-2 says, the 2014 rewrite, and where BIPA comes in.
- Privacy, consent and complianceRecording calls in India: what the law saysIs call recording legal in India? The privacy right, the Telecommunications Act 2023, how courts treat recordings, and which DPDP Act duties apply in 2026.
- Privacy, consent and complianceRecording calls in Japan: what the law saysRecording calls in Japan: no general offence for a participant, how courts treat secret recordings, and what the APPI and the PPC's Q&A ask of businesses.
- Privacy, consent and complianceRecording calls in Mexico: what the law saysRecording calls in Mexico: article 16 of the Constitution on private communications, the Federal Penal Code, and the 2025 federal data-protection law.
- Privacy, consent and complianceRecording calls in New York: what the law allowsNew York lets a participant record a call or conversation. What Penal Law 250.00 and 250.05 say, and what to do on calls with people in all-party states.
- Privacy, consent and complianceRecording calls in Singapore: what the law saysRecording calls in Singapore: what the PDPA asks of organisations that record calls and meetings, what the PDPC's guidelines say, and where individuals stand.
- Privacy, consent and complianceRecording calls in Texas: what the law allowsTexas lets a party to a call or conversation record it. What Penal Code 16.02 says, the civil claim under chapter 123, and calls into all-party states.
- Privacy, consent and complianceRecording calls in the Netherlands: the law explainedDutch law lets a participant record a conversation. What the Criminal Code says, what the Dutch data protection authority expects, and the works council's role.
- Privacy, consent and complianceRecording conversations in Canada: what the law allowsCanada's Criminal Code lets a participant record their own conversation, but privacy law and Quebec's Civil Code add more. The layers, with sources.
- Privacy, consent and complianceRecording meetings in Australia: state by stateWhether you can record a meeting or call you are in depends on the state. A table of each state's Act and consent rule, and the Commonwealth and privacy layers.
- Privacy, consent and complianceRecording meetings under GDPR: what to settle before you press recordMeeting recordings and transcripts are personal data. What GDPR asks — lawful basis, notice, retention, vendors — and what on-device transcription changes.
- Privacy, consent and complianceRecording therapy sessions: privacy questions to answer firstConsent, professional codes, health data law and where the recording goes: what a therapist should answer before recording or using AI notes for a session.
- Privacy, consent and complianceWhere does your meeting audio go? Questions for any notetakerA checklist for any AI notetaker: where audio is transcribed, what is kept, who trains on it, which processors, and how deletion works, answered for Notey.
- Privacy, consent and complianceWriting a meeting recording policy for your teamA one-page meeting recording policy: when recording is allowed, how people are told, retention, access, voice recognition and AI notes, with a template.