New York
One party's consent is enough, and that party can be you.
Eavesdropping is a felony, and a party to the conversation is not an eavesdropper: one party's consent is enough, and if you are in the conversation that party can be you.
As of .
- Rule
- One-party consent
- Statute
- N.Y. Penal Law §§ 250.00, 250.05
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.