Duty LXD-2188
Records calls, in Ireland
Postal and Telecommunications Services Act 1983, Prohibition on Interception of Telecommunications Messagessince 3 lines
Postal and Telecommunications Services Act 1983, s. 98, as amended by the Interception of Postal Packets and Telecommunications Messages (Regulation) Act 1993, s. 13 · Read the law's page
- Do not listen to, or record by any means, a telecommunications message in the course of its transmission unless either the person on whose behalf the message is sent or the person intended to receive it has consented to the listening or recording.
- If you are a party to a call, being the sender or the intended recipient, your own consent to your own recording of that call is enough to take the recording outside this offence; you do not need the other party's consent as well.
- Do not disclose the existence, substance or content of a message you know was intercepted without that consent, or use any information obtained from it.
S.I. No. 336 of 2011, Confidentiality of Communicationssince 2 lines
S.I. No. 336 of 2011, reg. 5(1)-(2) · Read the law's page
- Do not listen to, tap, store, or otherwise intercept or monitor the content or related traffic data of a communication without the consent of the users concerned, unless a legally authorised exception for national security, defence, public security, or the investigation and prosecution of crime applies.
- A recording made in the course of lawful business practice to evidence a commercial transaction or other business communication falls outside this consent duty.