[VoiceOps] Call Recording Laws in the US

[Peter Beckman]

So I've been thinking about call recording laws recently and wanted to get
some feedback.

     1. As an ITSP, are we held liable for enabling our customers to
        potentially illegally record a phone call in states where all-party
        notification is required?  Or is it solely on the party who did the
        illegal recording?

     2. Interstate phone calls get tricky -- it may be legal for
        single-party notification in the originating or terminating state, but
        illegal in the other.

     3. When a California resident has a California phone number (a state
        which requires all-party notification and consent of call recording)
        receives a call when physically in Oregon, which law applies -- CA
        or OR?  Assuming the caller is in a single-party consent state.

Makes things kinda difficult -- I guess it is simply easier for the ITSP to
say "hey, you can record, but follow the laws." and hope we don't get mixed
up in it.

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