Duty LXD-2367
Records text chat, in Washington
Privacy Act, Recording and Interception of Private Communicationsin force2 lines
RCW 9.73.030, .060, .070, .080 · Read the law's page
- Obtain the consent of every participant to a private telephone, radio, or other transmitted communication, and every person engaged in a private conversation, before recording or intercepting it by any device; consent is established when one party announces to all the others, in a reasonably effective manner, that the recording or transmission is about to happen, provided the announcement is itself recorded.
- Do not read or answer a private message sent to someone else, on the device it was sent to, before that person has seen it, without the consent this chapter requires; the Washington Supreme Court has held that doing so is an interception even though the message has already arrived.