Massachusetts
Everyone in the conversation must consent.
All parties must consent, and Massachusetts is unusual in that the offence is SECRET recording — an announced recording is treated differently from a hidden one.
As of .
- Rule
- All-party consent
- Statute
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272 § 99
What Scribe does about it
Scribe does not decide which rule applies to your conversation, and it will not tell you that a recording is permitted. What it does is make the recording obvious while it is happening: it starts only when you tap record, the screen says it is recording, and the app announces it out loud at the start — so the people in the room can object before there is anything to object to.
In an all-party jurisdiction that announcement is how consent gets asked for. In a one-party jurisdiction it is how you avoid the argument later.
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