One type of invasion of privacy is intrusion, also referred to as intrusion on selection, or intrusion on solitude.
Over hearing and publicizing private conversations or broadcasting images taken from private property typically constitutes an invasion of privacy.
A general guide is that if you are on public property when you obtain the information or images and you do not use a long telephoto lens or a highly directional microphone, an invasion of privacy case would be hard to prove.
This is because an average citizen could have easily witnessed the same thingThings change, however, when you trespass onto private property where you haven’t been invited, or when some type of sophisticated surveillance equipment is used.
Reporter’s often audio record in-person interviews and telephone conversations.
Although asking permission to records an interview may immediate some people, it makes it possible for you to double check quotes and its cheap insurance in case the person later claims that he or she was misquoted.
Recording telephone conversations can, of course, be done surreptitiously.
Many state laws stipulate that only one part – which would generally be you- need to know that the conversation is being taped. This is meant to discourage illegal wiretapping. Some state laws, however, require that both parties know that the conversation is being taped.
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