Is it illegal to videotape a person in my own home without their knowledge?
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Is it illegal to videotape a person in my own home without their knowledge?
I have heard that this is legal as long as their is no audio. Is that true? If it is legal, are their any instances or loop holes where it would become illegal for a video to be recorded (in the home of the person recording the video) without consent from the persons being recorded?
Asked on February 15, 2012 under Criminal Law, Texas
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Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
There is nothing illegal about videotaping a person in your own home without their knowledge. The videotape can have audio or not. What is illegal in all states in this country is to record a telephone call that one may be having without his or her knowledge.
However, when one calls and leaves a message on the telephone answering machine, the recording of the message is done voluntarily by the person leaving the message and that is perfectly fine.
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