Duty LXD-1250
Processes voice recordings, in Pennsylvania
Each law's tag says when it binds: since in force proposed proposed
Dittman v. UPMCsince 2 lines
196 A.3d 1036 (Pa. 2018)
- Applies to an employer that stores its employees' sensitive personal information on an internet-accessible computer system.
- Exercise reasonable care to safeguard that information: the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania held, on review of an order sustaining preliminary objections in the nature of a demurrer, that such an employer has a legal duty to do so.
Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Control Act, Interception, Consent Exception and Civil Actionin force3 lines
18 Pa.C.S. ยงยง 5703, 5704(4), 5725 · Read the law's page
- Do not intercept, disclose or use the contents of a wire, electronic or oral communication unless every party has given prior consent or another exception in section 5704 applies; outside law enforcement, being a party to the communication is not an exception.
- If your website loads a third-party script that routes a visitor's communications to the vendor's servers, get the visitor's prior consent; it is no defense that the visitor communicated directly with those servers, and consent may be implied only where the visitor knew or should have known of the interception.
- If you record telephone marketing or customer service communications for training, quality control or monitoring, have one party's consent, use the recordings only for training or quality control, and destroy them within one year unless federal or State law requires otherwise.
- The rule covers a telephone call and any electronic communication, including what a visitor sends through a website; it covers an in-person oral communication only where the speaker expected, in circumstances justifying the expectation, that it would not be intercepted.
H.B. 811, civil liability for fraudulent misrepresentation of candidates by deepfakeproposed3 lines
Pa. H.B. 811, 2025-2026 Regular Session · Read the law's page
- Do not knowingly and intentionally disseminate, within 90 days before an election and with willful or reckless disregard for influencing its outcome, a campaign advertisement containing a deepfake of a candidate intended to misrepresent the candidate's words, actions, or beliefs.
- A clear and conspicuous disclosure in the prescribed form, readable or audible to the viewer or listener, plus embedded tamper-evident content provenance identifying the content's creator and any subsequent editor, is a defense to liability.
- Comply with a court order for the immediate removal of the campaign advertisement and cessation of the activity complained of, which a court may issue while an aggrieved candidate's civil action is pending.